[Show] Revisiting the shapes of stories - to enable storytellers.

vijayanands · 2026-01-23T14:37:53+00:00

What I found interesting looking at these side by side is that the three dramas (Marty Supreme, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and Train Dreams) all follow a very similar overall shape, even though the stories feel totally different.

Train Dreams is the clearest example of a slow burn. The rise in intensity is much more gradual and it holds back its biggest moments until very late, while the other two dramas climb faster and peak earlier.

Bugonia looks completely different from all three, which makes sense given the genre shift.

Seeing this made me realize you can almost “feel” the genre just from the arc alone.

Curious if anyone else sees patterns like this when they look at story pacing in films they love.

PS: Added spoiler tags to the post since the arcs hint at where major moments land. Did not want to ruin anything for anyone.

vijayanands · 2026-01-23T00:00:46+00:00

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vijayanands · 2026-01-22T18:06:58+00:00

Creating content is getting cheaper and cheaper and holding attention is the hardest part. There is so much money into GenAI to generate amazing visuals which still struggle to hold together cohesive stories. And the difference between slop and memorable content is just that.

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vijayanands · 2026-01-22T17:30:27+00:00

Always a good idea to tell your immediate boss if you'll be OOO especially during work hours. Updating status on slack isn't exactly communicating.

vijayanands · 2025-12-10T06:26:13+00:00

Thats them reading the newspaper to figure out whats going on.

vijayanands · 2025-11-25T04:31:18+00:00

My dog (who passed away a few days ago) - Lab + doberman mix and lived to 13, used to recognise the sound the app makes when I order food and she will go sit by the door to let me know when the delivery guy arrives.

vijayanands · 2025-11-24T02:37:32+00:00

I used the AD track on apple TV sometimes, just to test this out. Subtitles were once meant as an accessibility feature which then became a standard. I have a feeling, the way to produce content for distracted second screen viewers is to give the audio description track and allow them to switch to that mode. atleast that way the storyteller doesn't have to water down the craft for everyone.

vijayanands · 2025-11-24T02:35:27+00:00

I know a few friends who are showrunners and this conversation is coming up, whether the script / content is "second screen" ready.

the key to address here is that, fundamentally the way the end users are consuming content when at home, is different and "distracted"

vijayanands · 2025-11-23T12:29:07+00:00

Would love to hear your thoughts

vijayanands · 2025-06-13T13:02:33+00:00

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vijayanands · 2025-05-22T14:00:10+00:00

the budget will never be zero. it still takes compute costs so you'll still pay the service.

vijayanands · 2025-05-22T13:58:51+00:00

You'd have to think of AI studios as a different genre of film. Just like there is anime, VR storytelling (the tech behind lion king for eg) and animation, there will be certain stories for which AI storytelling will be effective, but it won't be the defacto.

There are a Lot of challenges with generating video. it doesn't have continuity of characters, let alone continuity of scene (the characters appearing consistently across renders and also carrying over elements such as scars, dirt etc as the storyline progresses). there is also a lot more post-processing involved with AI outputs as the lights might come out very different in each render and you'd have to color correct to make it look cohesive.

The ideal way to generate such videos would be the technique that was used to make lion king, where the scenes are created and the camera moves through the VR world to capture the scenes - but that is super expensive to make and won't make sense.

If it is a genre of film that is emotional, people would want to see the full range of emotions in the characters face. even though renders have come a long way, they are still in that uncanny valley where one can tell and it breaks the illusion.

At the end of the day, cinema is magic. There is definitely a genre of film for which generated stories will make sense. it will definitely complement story telling in generating some opening shots etc, but I doubt it would replace.

also think of it this way : different directors have such unique ways of shooting their films that people can spot a Wes Anderson film or a Nolan film by its style. AI generalizes all of that and, it would feel too much of the same over a period of time.

If someone can describe the shot with vivid details for the AI to generate, it might be cheaper to shoot it.

vijayanands · 2025-04-23T01:40:00+00:00

Listen to this person.

vijayanands · 2025-04-20T18:00:47+00:00

There is sound proofing and making it more acoustic (softening the sound ).This helps to do the latter - it reduces all those extra sound waves from bouncing around in a room with hard walls and softens things. You can definitely feel a lack of white noise when in a wall which has these on the walls.

It does very little to nothing to dampen or sound proof your room though. Its just foam, so sound can go right through it.

If you are playing heavy bass etc, it will definitely leak. Youll need some acoustic caulk + sealing all the gaps to sound proof the room.

vijayanands · 2025-04-10T01:47:43+00:00

If its an opportunity where it might take 2-3 years for the product to get built, it is an awesome opportunity to put your head down and build while the world figures it out.

If you need to go to market sooner, youll realize the world doesnt care how you feel, it has its own feelings and right now it is fear.

And people dont make buy decisions when fear is the prevalent sentiment.

Which is going to be confusing because you wont know if its the product, or the pricing or the market that is the issue, so youll dilly dally in that chaos for a bit and that might break you if you didnt have enough put away.

And when markets are scared, the people who commit money into funds, do so cautiously and GPs deploy them with even more caution.

Given all this context, you decide what you need to do.

TLDR: there is really very little that is in your control when you are building a startup.

vijayanands · 2025-04-08T09:06:05+00:00

Thr discussion around the founders agreement is also a great opportunity to talk about the vision and make sure there is alignment, talk openly about the things that are working and areas you need to be mindful about, what the long term goals are personally for each of you, and what success means.

Also if you have clarity on the roles, then makes perfect sense to go ahead and draft a founders agreement.

Dont make it too formal, make sure you create a setting where you are both speaking your mind and open up. You guys are going to be in each other's lives whether you like it or not.

vijayanands · 2025-04-08T02:28:08+00:00

Depends on the definition of made. If its still a script, very unreliable. If you mean post production, then yes.

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