AI movie generator
AI Movie Generator: a short mystery with the same cast in every scene
We cast two actors once and filmed six scenes of one story on Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 and WAN 3.0. The same faces, coats and sweaters carry through every shot, with sound in each scene.
Our story is The Morrow Bell: a ferry captain and her radio operator pick up a call from an island that sank long ago. We made two cast portraits, then passed them as reference images to every scene, the same engines Film Studio films with.
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By Brian Lovett · Updated
The brief: one story, one cast, three engines
The hard part of making a movie with AI is not one good shot. It is the same two people in shot after shot, in different light, from different angles, on whichever model suits the scene.
So we gave ourselves a strict brief. One night, one ferry, two actors, six scenes. We made each actor once as a portrait, and from then on every scene got those two pictures and nothing else to go on.
The cast sheet and the rest of the story
The two portraits are the only references every scene got. The scenes below finish the story.
Cast portrait on Nano Banana 2.1 for 1.5 credits.
Cinematic character portrait for a film cast sheet: a ferry captain in her fifties with cropped iron grey hair, a thin scar through one eyebrow, weathered tan skin, a navy wool peacoat with brass buttons and a knit cap, standing in a rain soaked wheelhouse at night, green instrument glow on her face, chest up, looking just past camera, 35mm film still.
Cast portrait on Nano Banana 2.1 for 1.5 credits.
Cinematic character portrait for a film cast sheet: a ship radio operator in his thirties with round tortoiseshell glasses, a short beard and a mustard yellow cable knit sweater, headphones around his neck, in a cramped radio room lit by amber dials, chest up, 35mm film still.
Scene 4 on WAN 3.0 for 8 credits.
@Image 1 is the ferry captain, @Image 2 is the radio operator. Night, thick fog on black water: the captain rows a small wooden boat while the radio operator sits in the bow holding up an oil lantern, the dark outline of a stone bell tower looming ahead. Wide shot from the water. Sound: oars dipping, a slow bell tolling.
Scene 5 on Kling 4.0 for 23 credits.
<<<image_1>>> is the ferry captain, <<<image_2>>> is the radio operator. Inside a flooded stone bell tower lit by their lantern, knee deep in water, the great bronze bell above them swings on its own. The captain looks up and says, "Whoever rang it wanted us here." The radio operator grips the lantern. Sound: the bell ringing, dripping water, echo.
Scene 6 on WAN 3.0 for 8 credits.
@Image 1 is the ferry captain, @Image 2 is the radio operator. Dawn on the open stern deck of the ferry, pale gold light on a calm sea: the radio operator stares back at empty water where the tower stood, and the captain steps beside him and rests a hand on his shoulder. Slow pull back. Sound: gulls, a soft engine hum.
Three scenes on three engines
The first three scenes of The Morrow Bell, each on a different video model, each from the same cast portraits. The tile shows the prompt, settings and credits.
@Image1 is the ferry captain, @Image2 is the radio operator. Night, rain lashing the wheelhouse windows of a small car ferry, green instrument glow. The radio operator from @Image2 steps in holding out his headphones and says, "Captain, someone is calling from Morrow Island." The captain from @Image1 turns from the wheel and says quietly, "Morrow Island sank years ago." Slow push in. Sound: rain on glass, creaking hull, radio static.
<<<image_1>>> is the ferry captain. On the fog bound open deck of the ferry at night she swings a big searchlight across the fog, and the beam finds a stone bell tower rising straight out of the black water, its bell faintly glowing. She freezes, staring. Sound: a distant foghorn, waves against the hull.
@Image 1 is the radio operator. Close up in the cramped radio room lit by amber dials: he slowly turns a brass tuning dial, static crackles, a faint voice whispers through the speaker, and he lifts his eyes from the set, pale. Sound: static, a whisper, a ticking clock.
- Seedance 2.5 put both actors in one two shot, framed over his shoulder onto her face, with rain on the glass and green instrument light. It cost 36 credits for 6 seconds at 720p.
- Kling 4.0 kept the captain's face, knit cap and peacoat while it built the reveal: the searchlight flares and the bell tower appears in the fog, for 23 credits.
- WAN 3.0 matched the radio operator's glasses, beard, headphones and mustard sweater from the portrait in a slow close up, for 8 credits.
- Every scene came back with its own sound track, so the story plays with rain, sea and static under it.
What made the cast hold across scenes
One portrait per actor
A clean chest up portrait with the costume in it gave every model the face and the wardrobe at once.
Name the reference in the prompt
Each scene says which picture is which person: @Image1 on Seedance 2.5, @Image 1 on WAN 3.0 and <<<image_1>>> on Kling 4.0.
Only send who is in the shot
The searchlight scene got only the captain and the radio room scene only the operator, so no extra face wandered in.
Pick the engine per scene
Seedance 2.5 for the dialogue scene, Kling 4.0 for the big reveals, WAN 3.0 for quiet beats at 8 credits a scene.
From scenes to a finished movie in Film Studio
The scenes on this page were made one by one through the model pages, on the same engines Film Studio uses. Film Studio does the rest for you: it writes the script from your idea, casts it, films every scene and cuts them into one movie with a score.
You read every scene before anything is charged, and the quote shows each video model's price for the whole film. Save your actors in Character Studio and call them by @name in any prompt.
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What each scene cost
The cast portraits cost 1.5 credits each. Scenes cost 36 credits on Seedance 2.5 for 6 seconds, 23 credits on Kling 4.0 and 8 credits on WAN 3.0 for 5 seconds.
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Made with Seedance 2.5
All how-tosThe exact prompts and settings behind each one.
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AI Movie Generator questions
What is the best AI movie generator?
One that keeps your actors the same in every scene and gives you sound. On Pixel Dojo, Film Studio turns an idea into a finished movie on Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 or WAN 3.0, and every scene on this page was made on those engines.
How do I keep the same characters in every scene?
Make one portrait of each actor and pass it as a reference image to every scene, as we did here. Or save the character in Character Studio and call it by @name in any prompt.
How much does an AI movie cost to make?
You pay per scene at each model's own price. Our scenes cost 36 credits on Seedance 2.5, 23 on Kling 4.0 and 8 on WAN 3.0. Film Studio shows the price of the whole film before you start.
Can the characters talk?
Yes. Put the line in quotes in the scene prompt and Seedance 2.5, Kling 4.0 or WAN 3.0 make the voice with the shot. Film Studio writes the dialogue for you.
Is there a free AI movie generator?
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