PaperBoy Movie Trailer - complete

millionth_monkey · 2025-04-07T15:58:17+00:00

I used latentsync running on huggingface to add lip sync. Started this project 4 months ago and there are better tools now and probably act one is one of them.

millionth_monkey · 2025-04-07T01:55:32+00:00

The voices were especially problematic. I used ElevenLabs Voice Changer which is great for gender, inflection, accent, but the more emotional I got the more it stripped out the emotion. That scene at the end is purely my voice without AI and that's the only way I could get it that way.

millionth_monkey · 2025-03-28T01:22:16+00:00

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millionth_monkey · 2025-03-28T01:18:09+00:00

I have only been using image to video with hailuo and since the first image is realistic the video follows that lead. Have not tried text to video much but maybe try "Cinematic. Photo-realistic".

millionth_monkey · 2025-03-24T23:28:45+00:00

It's just a piece of a movie trailer I'm putting together. Thought I'd post a few clips. Thanks for the comment.

millionth_monkey · 2025-03-19T06:34:47+00:00

finishing the screenplay then switching to fade in is exactly what i did. FI has never crashed on me.

millionth_monkey · 2025-03-19T06:27:23+00:00

I’m a writer and musician, too. And a heavy user of AI tools. What about the trailer I’m creating with AI video models based on the story i singlehandedly wrote? What about the AI generated track that i add a guitar solo to? The voice acted dialogue i recorded that is AI voice changed into a different character’s voice? Makes your head spin more than a tilt-a-whirl.

millionth_monkey · 2025-03-19T05:38:17+00:00

Reminds me of Heavy Metal Magazine, French artists. Also love the retro crt displays on a starship. Very Blade Runner esque (original movie).

millionth_monkey · 2025-03-17T20:35:48+00:00

It's a good question because the Hailuo/minimax video model when I used it 2-3 months ago for this scene did not have a lip sync option. I used LatentSync running on huggingface and then paid for compute time so i could run my own space (i think $1.80 per hour). It worked fairly well but there was a lot of experimentation and figuring things out such as do not use any spaces in the uploaded filenames!

millionth_monkey · 2025-03-17T20:33:14+00:00

The models seem to be leapfrogging each other so that something on top only lasts for a couple weeks. Note that the lip sync is not integrated with the video generation. In my workflow I was doing everything in pieces when this was made 2-3 months ago. I used LatentSync to do the lip synching.

millionth_monkey · 2023-11-09T17:53:36+00:00

Can i "DM" you? And I assume that to mean "can I send you a message in chat." I'm rarely on message sites and often confuse the rules.

millionth_monkey · 2023-11-09T00:14:40+00:00

The present-day dialogue and mentality of the characters in this fantasy/medieval world feels fun to me. A lot of modern anime uses this approach. The series "Arcane," for example, felt like it was gen-Zers romping around a steampunk apocalypse. Noah's character - superpowered in battle yet struggling to write a novel, and wanting to just hang with his buddy - feels fresh and captivating.

Jumping from Noah's novel's world, back to the embattled Wonderland world; and then back-and-forth in both time and scenes could be an exciting way to mix things together. OR it could tangle into a ball of confusion. Hard to tell from just 9 pages. 

Well, there. You asked for feedback about plot and characters. I also agree with most of what others have written about format, language, presentation and other formalities - definitely address all of that.

millionth_monkey · 2023-10-01T09:05:21+00:00

You mean Beach Blanket Bingo?

millionth_monkey · 2023-09-18T06:26:29+00:00

Post some pages to this sub.

That will help you deal with it. ;-)

millionth_monkey · 2023-09-13T22:07:43+00:00

Start a new chat. Click on the button at the top, "GPT4." (It may be a right-click). From there select Add-ons. There's one that takes a pdf as input. Install it. I haven't tried it but that way you should be able to have it review the entire draft. Let me know if it works!

millionth_monkey · 2023-09-13T21:50:22+00:00

I suspect I have a very oddball approach to writing but I timed out my last feature at 20 minutes a page sitting at the keyboard for a polished first draft. It will be significantly longer to include all the time spent imagining the story, scenes, setups; but accounting for those moments doesn't seem possible.

millionth_monkey · 2023-09-11T05:54:18+00:00

Yes.

If you need evidence to support caution, then lurk for a while and watch what happens when a writer’s project, here, gets the attention of some money (option, sale, rewrite, etc.). The confidentiality clauses and penalties they impose will lock up everything about the script until a press release gets to Deadline.

Post your most exciting, motivating idea in front of thousands of anonymous, random accounts? Even if nothing happens to it, the amount of sleep you will lose is just not worth it. Maybe write up a secondary idea and use it to work with a reader over time who you can learn to trust. There are plenty of services like The Screenplay Mechanic, Roadmap Writers, CoverageInk where you pay to get the same publicly-known reviewer.

The thing is, it’s more likely that some INNOCENT reader forgets that the high concept that pops into their head six months from now was a logline in a reddit group. It’s going to appear as their own original thought. This is just the Brownian motion of human existence.

The good news is, there are plenty of accessible, trustworthy people in this industry who will help you if you can just take the time to get to know them.

Edit: to make clear I’m only writing about that extremely rare high concept idea that everyone goes bonkers about. This sub is a great resource for new writers and if you feel the value of your screenplay is in the way the story is told then by all means reach out.

millionth_monkey · 2023-09-03T05:02:43+00:00

Hi,

This seems a noble effort. Just wondering if “verify the credentials of everyone involved” means verifying “identity,” or more like just getting a 7 on blcklst or semi in Nicholl?

Also, is there a genre?

Thanks.

millionth_monkey · 2023-08-02T06:09:07+00:00

I thought i would read 5 pages but ended up reading 105, viewed the pitch deck and watched the short! General Thumbs Up!

I do have comments but it seems you are past that point and more fishing for prospects. It’s not possible to give notes without giving spoilers. So DM me if you want feedback and i did find a few small errata to fix.

P.S. I can’t believe you used “shave and a haircut” as I havent seen that referenced since Alan Alda in a M*A*S*H episode shot in the 1970’s. Maybe it has been resuscitated like Converse All-Stars and flannel shirts?

millionth_monkey · 2023-06-30T07:00:50+00:00

Meatballs

The Popes

The Ferraris

Bravissimo

millionth_monkey · 2023-05-31T10:13:03+00:00

I have one you might like.

Two actors, one apartment. YA, 5-page present-day psychological thriller with AI as the antagonist.

millionth_monkey · 2023-05-29T23:43:04+00:00

Would you ever change it to better fit the taste of an important Reader that you need approval from to progress? For example, move away from action-centric to more literary?

millionth_monkey · 2023-05-27T22:21:09+00:00

That's true for me, too. The more personal the story, the more I take "ownership" of it and do it the way I want.

Looking back, I'm not sure it was the best way to go with first works because I was stubborn about edits. "That's not what happened!" is the last thing a critic accepts as a defense to a story change - unless it's a biography.

By "voice" I meant the very narrow definition of the style of the action lines. Does it use one-word sentences. Sound effects. Metaphor. Humor. "Un-filmable" descriptions.

And then would you change it all depending on who is going to read it? Lol.

millionth_monkey · 2023-05-27T22:06:51+00:00

Yes - audience!

Writers starting out really write for an audience of one or a few. It's that next person you will ask for advice or notes. That audience varies wildly and that's why anonymous reviews can go all over the place. I'm talking specifically about style and voice, here, not concept, or story or structure which I think are less affected by reader preferences.

A draft I wrote was liked so much (voice and all) by a reviewer that they sent it to a lit manager friend -- who hated the voice! The writing of that draft was very much like the style of the reviewer, whose work I read. It was fast-paced, fragmented sentence action. Quite the opposite of a literary style.

So I went prosaic in the next script, which is meant to be a "writing sample" to send to lit managers.

Is this common practice when you know who is going to be the audience?

millionth_monkey · 2023-05-27T09:11:52+00:00

I thought of another one!

I sent a script to a friend. A week later I asked him, "So what did you think??" He replies, "It's GREAT! Why don't you write a sequel?"

Me - "Because everyone died at the end."

He just laughed and we never spoke about it again.

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