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- Script to Storyboard: Plan Your AI Short FilmAI film pipeline · Vixel
- AI Shot List: How to Build a Camera-Ready PlanPre-production · Leah Retta (Runway)
- AI Camera Prompts: Movement, Angles and Shots in AI VideoShot prompting · Leah Retta (Runway)
- Reference Sheets Are a Cheat Code for AI VideoConsistent characters · Jerrod Lew (@jerrod_lew)
Filmmaking basics
What is a Shot List?
This guide shows what goes on a shot list and how to make one in five steps. It also explains how a shot list differs from a storyboard.
What is Diegetic Sound?
This guide explains the difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound. It covers diegetic dialogue, music and sound effects with film examples.
What Is Room Tone in Film?
A practical guide to recording room tone and using it in the edit. It includes a 7-step on-set method and common mistakes to avoid.
What is Depth of Field? Shallow vs Deep
This guide defines depth of field and contrasts shallow and deep focus. It explains what affects depth of field and how to adjust it with aperture.
How to Write a Creative Brief for Video Production
Celtx explains what a creative brief is and the seven parts every video brief should have. It then walks through writing one so everyone agrees on the goal before the script.
50+ Types of Camera Shots, Angles, and Techniques
A reference guide to every common shot size, angle and framing technique. It runs from extreme wide shots to extreme close-ups with film examples for each.
The Rule of Thirds in Film
StudioBinder explains the rule of thirds and how filmmakers place subjects on a 3x3 grid. It compares the rule with centered framing and shows how to plan it in a shot list.
Definitive Guide to Every Type of Camera Movement in Film
This guide covers each type of camera movement and when to use it. It starts with the static frame and moves through pans, tilts and more complex moves.
Three Act Structure in Film
StudioBinder explains the three-act structure, its history and why it works. It also covers why some screenwriters disagree with it.
The Kuleshov Effect Explained
StudioBinder explains the Kuleshov effect, where meaning comes from how shots are put side by side. It shows modern examples and how Spielberg uses reaction shots.
Three-Point Video Lighting: Key, Fill and Backlight
A step-by-step guide to the classic three-point lighting setup. It defines the key, fill and backlight and shows how to build each one.
Types of Editing Transitions in Film
A guide to the cuts and transitions editors use to move between shots. It covers each type with film examples.
How to Make a Storyboard
StudioBinder explains how to plan a film frame by frame with a storyboard. It covers what goes into each panel and how a board connects to the script and shot list.
Focal Length: Understanding Camera Lenses
StudioBinder explains what focal length is and why it changes the look of a shot. It compares wide-angle, standard and long-focus lenses.
What Is the 180 Degree Rule in Film and How to Break It
StudioBinder explains the imaginary line that keeps characters' positions and eyelines consistent between cuts. It also shows when and how filmmakers cross it on purpose.
What Is a Creative Brief: Types, Templates and Formats
StudioBinder defines the creative brief and the elements it should contain. It covers objectives, audience, key messages, deliverables, timeline and budget, with tips for keeping it short.
What Are the Basics of Color Grading?
No Film School explains the difference between colour correction and colour grading and the basic steps of each. It is a starting point for giving a set of shots one consistent look.
How to Format a Screenplay
Sam Kench at StudioBinder covers standard screenplay format, from scene headings to action lines and dialogue. A properly formatted script is also easier to break into shots later.
AI filmmaking
Google Flow Tutorial: Transitions
This weekly Google Flow tutorial by Jerrod Lew focuses on transitions between shots. It shows how to join generated clips so the cut feels intended.
Script to Storyboard: Plan Your AI Short Film
Vixel's guide turns a short script into a shot list and then a storyboard using worked examples. Its main lesson is to turn every feeling in the script into an action the camera can see.
LTX-2.5 DFR in ComfyUI: Image to Video with Audio
A three-stage LTX-2.5 pipeline that generates video with synced audio from one image. It renders at half size, upscales 2x spatially, then optionally doubles the frame rate.
You Already Know LTX, Part 4: Make Your Own IC-LoRA
In this long X article Christopher Fryant explains, from zero, how he trained the Blackout IC-LoRA for LTX. It covers what LoRAs and IC-LoRAs are, how to build before-and-after training pairs and how trigger words work.
LTX-Video in ComfyUI: T2V, I2V, Multi-Frame Control
ComfyUI's guide to LTX-Video text-to-video, image-to-video and multi-frame control workflows. It stresses that this model needs long, descriptive prompts.
Wan2.2-S2V in ComfyUI: Audio-Driven Video
ComfyUI's native workflow for Wan2.2-S2V, which turns a still image plus audio into a talking or singing video. It supports full-body and half-body characters and long-form output.
AI B-Roll Workflow: Pick Moments From the Script, Direct a Frame, Animate in Runway
Matt Paige shows how he makes B-roll for short videos: ChatGPT picks the three or four script lines that need a visual, he builds and fixes a reference frame, then animates it with Runway inside ChatGPT. The tutorial gives his prompts for each step and includes a Runway discount code.
You Already Know LTX, Part 3: The Blackout Flashlight Effect
Christopher Fryant shares his first own LTX IC-LoRA, Blackout, which turns the lights off in a scene and relights it with a flashlight. The thread includes the steps to get the effect running in ComfyUI.
You Already Know LTX, Part 2: Add Water to Any Scene
Part 2 of Christopher Fryant's series applies an LTX water-simulation IC-LoRA to existing footage. It adds rain, wet surfaces, puddles and splashes, and the prompt can steer the result a little.
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511 in ComfyUI: Multi-Reference Editing
The official ComfyUI docs show a local workflow for Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, an open image-editing model. It keeps a character's identity across edits and can combine several reference images, which helps build character and location plates locally.
Reference Sheets Are a Cheat Code for AI Video
Jerrod Lew shows how to make detailed reference sheets for characters, objects and environments with image models. Feeding these sheets to video tools gives them more context and keeps generations consistent.
Google Flow Tutorial: Storyboards
Jerrod Lew's tutorial, made with Google Flow, covers building a storyboard inside Flow. He shows how the Flow agent helps plan shots and keep the video consistent.
You Already Know LTX, Part 1: Remove People With a Clean-Plate IC-LoRA
Christopher Fryant starts an X series on running custom LTX video workflows in ComfyUI without specialist knowledge, letting an AI agent handle the setup. Part 1 uses a clean-plate IC-LoRA that removes people from any video.
Sound Design for AI Short Films: A Five-Pass Workflow
Prompt2Screen gives a five-pass order for adding sound to an AI short once the picture is locked. It builds from a spotting list and ambience beds to spot effects, music and the final mix.
ComfyUI Image Upscale Workflow
A beginner tutorial on AI upscaling in ComfyUI with ESRGAN models. It shows how to download models from OpenModelDB and chain upscaling after text-to-image.
Wan2.2 Video Generation in ComfyUI
The official ComfyUI tutorial for running Wan 2.2 video models with native workflows. It covers the model versions, downloads and the 5B hybrid text/image-to-video workflow.
AI Camera Prompts: Movement, Angles and Shots in AI Video
Runway's guide lists the camera terms video models follow and gives an order for putting them into a prompt. It explains why named moves like a slow dolly push-in work better than words like cinematic.
AI Shot List: How to Build a Camera-Ready Plan
Runway explains how to turn a script, scene or brief into a shot list with framing, angle, movement and action for every shot. It also shows how to write shot descriptions that can be used directly as video prompts.
LTX-2.5 Image-to-Video and Text-to-Video Workflow Guide
LTX's own walkthrough of the official ComfyUI workflows for LTX-2.5. It explains multiscale rendering, audio-video generation and when to use the distilled or full model.
Wan2.2 Animate: Character Animation and Replacement
The official ComfyUI workflow for Wan2.2 Animate. It animates a character from a performer's video or replaces a person in a video while keeping lighting and color.
AI Short Film Workflow: From Generated Clips to a Finished Edit
Envato walks through making a cinematic short with an AI video generator and finishing it in DaVinci Resolve. It covers planning the shots, generating the clips and assembling them into one film.
Red Rising Teaser: Book Passage to Trailer With Luma's Agent and Seedance 2.0
PJ Ace breaks down how he turned a 20-minute audiobook scene from Red Rising into a 3-minute fan teaser in under a week, with prompts at each step. He used Luma's agent for scripting help, character looks and 2x2 image grids, then animated the chosen frames in Seedance 2.0; the thread was posted on Luma agent's launch day and promotes it.
Kling VIDEO 3.0 Model Guide
Kling's official guide to its VIDEO 3.0 model. It covers multi-shot narratives, image-to-video with subject consistency, native audio and 15-second generation.
Kling VIDEO 3.0 Omni Guide
Kling's guide to the 3.0 Omni model for reference-driven video. It explains all-in-one references, Elements 3.0 character capture and storyboard narration.
Consistent Character AI Video: Two-Frame Tutorial
A six-step workflow that turns one approved portrait into two keyframes and a short consistent clip. It includes prompts, a frame-by-frame acceptance sheet and drift troubleshooting.
A Six-Layer Framework for Prompting AI Video Models
Venice AI breaks a video prompt into six layers: subject and action, shot type, camera movement, lighting, technical specs and pacing. It also shares three ways to iterate that save credits across models like Kling, Sora, Wan and Veo.
Ultimate Prompting Guide for Veo 3.1
Google Cloud's guide to writing prompts for Veo 3.1 video generation. It gives a prompt formula, core techniques and advanced creative workflows.
How I Created an Animated Short Film Using AI in 8 Steps
Shweta Kaushal lays out an eight-step pipeline from a story idea to a finished animated short. Each step names the kind of tool used, from language models for the script to diffusion models and AI voice.
How I Made My First AI-Native Film: The Old Man & The Bee
db clay describes making a personal short film in about a day for under $100 with generative tools. The post compares each of the five steps with a traditional film workflow.
Gen-4 References: Consistent Characters and Locations
This Runway Academy video shows how to keep a character and a location consistent by feeding up to three reference images. Saved references can be called by name in later prompts.