Crafting AI Short Films: A Step-by-Step Guide to Opening CreditsCrafting AI Short Films: A Step-by-Step Guide to Opening Credits
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Hi Everyone! I feel like this was something that I wished I had when I started making more AI short films!
I thought Opening Credits was the best way to showcase Melius through quality + quantity while also showing utility + taste in a very straightforward way.
My process:
1. Built a master style brief to make sure each image that I generate would have consistent lighting/color/style.
2. Created a reference image using the master style brief (esp for The Quiet Room Opening Credits).
3. Then I worked backwards. Since I knew that the reference image is also the final reveal, I created all of the other scenes using the reference image and the master style brief. Chatgpt does a really good job creating consistent images through storyboards.
4. Used Elevenlabs to create the music!
5. Then just added pacing + fonts on Davinci Resolve!
Feedback
1. When asking Mel to reference a node, sometimes it would not choose the correct node.
2. Elevenlabs text to music didn't work when I tried it. I think it would lead to text to sfx? (I had to use elevenlabs on the actual website)
3. When I was connecting the image to use as the starting frame for Grok or Kling, after I would click to generate the video, it wouldn't use the image as the reference and only used the prompt.
4. Love the concept of the layering edit! Only issue is that once you save the edit of text onto the video, you can't get rid of it.
5. Might've been nice to use layer edit for the sound + text and make it editable.
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