Learn to turn a script into a movie.
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Go from idea to a finished short. Learn the core workflow of writing, generating, and editing.
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The Two-Minute Short
Build a story with multiple scenes, consistent characters, and a real narrative arc across shots.
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The 10-Minute+ Film
Plan and produce a longer film with a full screenplay, asset pipeline, sound design, and final edit.
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The Complete Course
All three courses in one guided path, from your first 30 seconds to a finished 10-minute film.
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AI Film Camp guide
One-take AI filmmaking: give the camera a story
Plan a continuous shot with a clear reveal. Includes an original prompt and review checklist, inspired by PJ Ace’s Seedance 2.5 playbook.
AI Film Camp guide
Cinematic prompts: direct the shot
Six film techniques. Short prompts. Clear choices for framing, light, and movement.
AI Film Camp guide
Develop a film idea with an AI writing partner
Set a brief, explore six story possibilities, and develop one into five visual beats. Includes two reusable prompts and a worked example.
Come up with an idea
Use an AI chat app to come up with ideas, improve your favorite, and choose a story for a 30-second film.
Write your scenes
Turn the idea into a short script and break it into scenes, deciding what each one needs to show.
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Identify your assets
Define the images, references, video, and audio each shot needs.
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Generate your assets
Choose tools, develop prompts, and review what you create.
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Bring it all together
Arrange your shots, shape the sound, and export a finished 30-second film.
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Write a multi-scene story
Shape a short script with a beginning, middle, and end across several locations.
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Keep characters consistent
Build reference sheets so the same faces, costumes, and places hold from shot to shot.
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Direct performance and pacing
Use dialogue, voice, and shot length to carry a story arc.
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Cut a two-minute film
Edit across scenes with transitions, music, and sound that serve the story.
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Develop a full screenplay
Structure a longer story and refine it into a production-ready script.
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Build an asset pipeline
Break the script down into a manifest and generate hundreds of shots without losing track.
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Design the sound
Layer dialogue, effects, ambience, and score into a finished mix.
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Finish and release
Assemble the final edit, color and title it, and share the film.
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Useful links
Developing ideas with LLMs
Selected guides for working with an AI writing partner: explore a premise, shape a scene, and decide what to make before generating footage.
Sean Goedecke · Creative process
Practical notes on getting LLMs to generate new ideas
Lessons from building an idea-generation experiment: focus on a specific problem, ask for concrete mechanisms, and use your own expertise to judge the results. Useful thinking to adapt to story development, drawn from the author's experiments rather than filmmaking tests.
Sean Goedecke · Working with LLMs
Using LLMs effectively isn't about prompting
A companion essay on learning a model's strengths and limits, asking follow-up questions, and changing approach when a conversation stalls. General working habits with software-oriented examples; specific capability claims reflect the models available in 2025.
No Film School · Start here
Brainstorm film premises and develop scenes
Prompts for exploring premises, developing characters, outlining a story, and rewriting scenes. A useful starting point when you have a spark but need a direction.
Kapwing · Production workflow
Turn a story into consistent video prompts
A Bigfoot-video walkthrough showing how scene descriptions become generation prompts. Take the lessons on character consistency, human revision, and iteration into your own project; tool instructions are specific to the featured workflow.
Louis Gleeson · LinkedIn · Social video
Develop hooks and short social scripts
A compact prompt sequence for generating ideas, choosing a hook, and drafting a timed short script. Best for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Treat the viral framing as inspiration, not a promise of results.