Course
Make a 30-Second Film
Lesson 01 of 4
Come up with an idea
Small idea.Big feeling.
Don’t ask AI for film ideas. Bring a hunch of your own, however rough, and make the model help you develop it.
Start witha hunch.
Develop Your Idea with AI
No hunch yet? ChatGPT interviews you one question at a time and never pitches its own ideas. Paste its final reply here to fill both fields.
Force it intoone sentence.
This sentence is a diagnostic. If you can’t fill a slot, the idea is still a vibe. Go deeper on loglines.
After CATALYST, HERO must overcome OBSTACLE to GOAL, or else STAKES.
Fork one variableat a time.
Don’t generate six different films. Generate six mutations of this one, then attack them. Keep the version you still want afterwards.
- Protagonistwho has the problem
- Antagonistwho benefits if they fail
- Arenawhere this is expensive or embarrassing
- Tonesame events, different genre contract
- Secretwho holds it
- Ending ironythey get the goal and lose the need, or the reverse
Talk the forks through in ChatGPT. When you tell it your idea is locked, it returns your final logline. Paste that reply here to update the logline, slots, and arena below.
Your logline so far
Review your idea.
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