Action

Current Budget: $336 per year LTX Studio/Time to edit

Plot:

Four ladies pull off the heist of the century resulting in a street chase down the streets of downtown. Misdirection is the key for the ladies, as they shake off the police following their heist.

Background:

This short film is the result of wanting to see just how far a Director can push footage of a street race where the cars appear to be going slow and just what footage is necessary to generate that feeling of excitement in a chase.

Unfortunately, the AI generator created several shots where basically the car was going so slow that the driver could have pushed the car faster than the speed it was moving. The other problem was that AI generated cars without drivers. This was most likely due to an error in the prompt.

The other interesting part of the AI generated shots was that AI didn’t understand what part of the car needed to go forward (did not understand the concept of front grill vs. back headlights) when creating the motion for the car. One prompt of “The black Chevy Chevelle begins to turn left onto the street, its tires slightly skidding and leaving faint marks on the asphalt,” resulted in the empty car moving backwards through the intersection but taking a left turn.

Another prompt of “The black chevy Chevelle speeds down the street” resulted in the car driving backwards down the street. What seemed to be clear directions from a human, resulted in random results from the AI generator on how the car performed.

The most logical thing to do was to change the storyline and see how to use it to further the chase.

Showing speed was a problem. The AI generator must have had some limiter on it because it would allow the Chevelle to go fast.

Realistically, it would be interesting to see what data set that LTX Studio uses to create its images and videos.

The data set might not include images that show cars speeding down a road in downtown or it might not have images showing how a car crash occurs (only the result of it instead).

The AI generator had difficulties understanding the concept of nearly hitting another car but either just grazing it or just missing contact with it.

Several things were successful though, including the smoke with the cornering, the final shot, and setting up a cute story of misdirection.

The audio was also an experience that showed the value of paying for a good sound effects. For the most part, the sound effects were good but it would have been nice to have the exact sound of the Chevelle revving and control over how it revved instead of a prolonged revving that didn’t really match what a car really does.

The music was from LTX Studio with added sound effects clips from Microsoft Clipchamp and Voice Over/dialogue from Mari Bengston.

This was a fun project though! Next time, it will be faster.

Edited by:

Mari Bengston

Voice Over Artist:

Mari Bengston

Script:

Mari Bengston

Software Used:

LTX Studio

Microsoft Clipchamp

Voice Memo (iPhone 16 Pro Max)

Audio Converter (.mp3 files)