How to make a story-driven promo for an organisation with no footage
Paste your story brief into Vizard Agent and attach whatever you have, even a photograph of a t-shirt with your logo on it. Vizard Agent isolates the mark from the photograph, records the narration, generates a scene for each beat of the story, and assembles the film with styled on-screen text.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Paste the brief as written. Vizard Agent reads a scene list as a scene list and builds to it, so a document you have already written for a production company is exactly the right input. There is no need to rewrite it into a prompt. Beats like "a boy stands alone" work better than paragraphs.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Every scene is generated, which moves the whole job back to the writing and to whatever brand material can be dug out of a photograph. In this case there was no logo file, so Vizard Agent took one out of a picture of a shirt by looking for the mark's colour where it would be. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the attached image, then searched for cinematic inspirational music and downloaded the chosen track.
- Generated the narration lines in parallel in a warm, deep register and probed each one's duration.
- Ran a script to isolate and cut out the logo, then corrected it to search for the mark's colour only in the chest region of the shirt, because searching the whole image found the wrong things.
- Generated the eleven cinematic scenes in batches, then probed the exact duration of every clip and checked they all shared a resolution before joining them.
- Built styled subtitles, regenerated them aligned to the output size, and rendered a wide 62-second film at 1280x720.
When does this not work well?
Generated people are not your people. Vizard Agent builds a convincing film about the kind of thing your organisation does, but for a film about your members, photographs of your members are better. A logo taken from a photograph is approximate, and eleven scenes is a lot of generation, because cost scales with scenes rather than runtime.
Common questions
Do I need any footage? No. Vizard Agent generates every scene, and your own photographs and video make it far more personal.
What if I only have a photo of our logo on a shirt? That works. Vizard Agent isolates the mark from the photograph and cleans it up.
Will it write the narration? Yes, Vizard Agent writes it from your brief. Paste your own lines and it reads those instead.