How to make a mock news interview with generated characters
Tell Vizard Agent the format is a news interview and cast every role in it. It generates a character sheet for each one, reviews them together before anything moves, generates the shots in parallel, transcribes each line for exact timing, and holds the rules you set across every frame.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
State the constraint as a prohibition. Vizard Agent enforces a named rule across every generated frame, and "exactly one eye, centred, no extra eyes anywhere on the face" is checkable in a way that "a cyclops" isn't, because a generator will happily add a second one. Cast every role: the anchor, the reporter and the subject.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Everything before shot generation is casting. The sheets are built, tiled and reviewed together, and that review is the gate: once seven shots exist, a subject who grew a second eye in three of them means seven generations of rework, while checking the sheets first costs one step. In the session behind this article it:
- Reviewed the uploaded reference image of the subject and loaded its film-production guidance.
- Generated character sheets for the anchor, the subject and the reporter, and assigned each a voice.
- Tiled the three sheets for review, rebuilt the tile when the first attempt failed, and reviewed all three together.
- Generated the seven news shots in parallel and extracted frames from each for an overview.
- Transcribed each shot's dialogue for exact timing, then checked the caption and music tools and the available typefaces.
When does this not work well?
Generated characters drift between shots by default, and comedy brings its own failure modes. A rule has to be stated to be held, because a generator adds what it thinks belongs. Three characters are three consistency problems, each needing its own sheet. Real broadcasters and real people are off limits, and a weak premise played straight is just slow.
Common questions
Can I supply a reference for the subject? Yes, and it helps considerably. Vizard Agent builds the character sheet from it.
Does it generate the voices too? Yes. Vizard Agent casts one voice per role at the same time as the character sheets.
Can the cast be reused in another piece? Yes. Vizard Agent keeps the character sheets, so a second item with the same anchor and reporter skips the casting stage.