How to make a short AI film
Give Vizard Agent a story idea and it makes a short film with every shot generated — consistent characters across the whole piece, voiced dialogue, music and grading. No footage, no camera, no cast. The one thing Vizard Agent cannot supply is the story, and a minute of beautiful shots with nothing happening is still nothing happening.
What is the short version?
Three moves, and the first is the entire job. Everything downstream — the shots, the voices, the cutting — is generated, so the only real input is the premise. That is an unfamiliar position to be in: the constraint on an AI film is not production, it is writing.
- Go to Vizard Agent and describe the story and the characters.
- Name a length, a look and a tone.
- Watch it once and judge the minute, not the frames.
The rest of this page is what goes into each of those, and where the approach stops working.
What do you need before you start?
A premise and the people in it. Nothing else — no footage, no location, no cast, which is what makes this format possible at all. What replaces all of that is that a vague premise produces a vague film, and Vizard Agent has nothing else to work from.
- A story with a turn. "A lighthouse keeper finds a message in a bottle addressed to him" is a premise. "Something at a lighthouse" is not.
- Named, described characters. "Mara, fifties, weathered, grey coat." Vizard Agent carries a described character through every shot.
- A look. "Cold, blue, wide lenses" or "warm 16mm, handheld". This decides the film more than the plot summary does.
- Dialogue, if there is any. Written out. Vizard Agent voices it; the words themselves should be yours.
- A length. A minute is the usual ask, and a minute holds roughly one turn — not three.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Vizard Agent ships this as a template, and the two clauses after the dash are what separate a film from a sequence of generated clips. Characters stay consistent across the shots and the dialogue is voiced, so the bracket in the middle is the only part you have to fill in properly.
Prompt
Three variants worth keeping:
When the characters carry it
When you have written the lines
When it is a pitch or a proof of concept
What are the steps inside Vizard Agent?
Three, and the last is the one people are least prepared for. Vizard Agent writes or takes the script, breaks it into shots, generates each one with the characters held consistent, voices the dialogue, scores it and cuts the whole thing — as one request, so you review a finished film.
- Open the Vizard Agent chat with the premise and the characters, using the prompt above.
- Pick the tier that matches the job. Generation is the most demanding thing on this list; for anything you intend to show, the product recommends Max, and the free Flash tier is built for quick, simple edits.
- Watch it once and judge the story. The shots will look like cinema. Whether the minute earns its ending is a separate question, and the only one worth your attention.
What does the result look like?
A finished short: generated shots with your characters recognisable throughout, voiced dialogue, music, a consistent grade, cut to the length you named. Vizard Agent keeps the script and the generated shots in the project, so re-cutting or changing one scene costs a sentence rather than regenerating everything.
It is not instant, and this category was not separately measured. Generation is at the heavy end of what the product does, and comparable work runs a median of 28 to 38 minutes end to end with a long tail — the upper quartile of measured categories runs to 47 and 61 minutes. Across all projects the median cost by tier is Flash 47, Pro 55, Max 242, Ultra 263 credits.
When does this not work well?
The failures here are almost entirely about writing and scope. Vizard Agent handles the parts that used to require a crew, which leaves the parts that always required a writer — and those are unchanged by any of this.
- No story. A premise without a turn produces a minute of atmosphere. This is the commonest disappointment and it is fixed in the prompt, not the render.
- Too much plot for the length. A minute holds one turn. Three acts compressed into sixty seconds reads as a trailer for a film that does not exist.
- A specific real person. Do not ask for a real individual's likeness or voice. That is a rights problem regardless of how it is produced.
- Existing characters and worlds. Established franchises are somebody's property. An original character described in your own words is not.
- Exact shot specifications. Describe the intent — "wide, cold, she is small in the frame" — rather than a lens and a focal length. Direction lands better than a shot list.
- Complex physical action. Fights, stunts and precise object interaction are harder to make legible than dialogue, faces and atmosphere.
- Disclosure. Some platforms and markets require synthetic media to be labelled. Check what applies where you are publishing.
If you cannot say what changes between the first shot and the last, that is the thing to fix before you generate anything.
How do you fix a result that came back wrong?
Reply in the same Vizard Agent conversation instead of starting over. The script and every shot Vizard Agent has already generated stay in the project, so you are not billed again for them — re-cutting or replacing one scene is cheap, changing the premise is a new film.
| What you see | What to say next |
|---|---|
| Nothing happens | "She has to decide something — she burns the letter at the end" |
| It feels rushed | "Cut the second location, give the ending twenty seconds" |
| Wrong look | "Colder and wider — she should be small in every frame" |
| The dialogue sounds flat | "Slower delivery, longer pauses, quieter" |
| One scene is weak | "Regenerate the harbour scene at dusk, keep everything else" |
How does Vizard Agent compare to making it yourself?
There is no realistic hand-made comparison at this scale — a one-minute live-action short with two characters means a cast, a location, a crew, a shoot day and an edit. The honest comparison is not "faster", it is that most of these films would not otherwise be made at all.
| Vizard Agent | Shooting a live-action short | |
|---|---|---|
| Cast and crew | None | The main cost |
| Location | Described in a sentence | Scouted, booked, permitted |
| Shooting | Generated | A day at minimum |
| Changing a scene later | A sentence | A reshoot |
| Time to a finished minute | Tens of minutes | Weeks |
| The writing | Yours, unchanged | Yours |
Note the last row. Everything that used to be expensive has moved; the part that decides whether the film is any good has not.
Common questions
Will the same character look the same in every shot?
Yes — character consistency across shots is what the format is built on. Describe each character once, by name and appearance, and Vizard Agent carries them through the film so the audience recognises who they are watching.
How long can an AI film be?
A minute or two is the sweet spot, because that is what one turn of story supports. Longer is possible, but ask Vizard Agent for more length only when you have more story — not to make the same idea feel bigger.
Can I write the dialogue myself?
Yes, and it usually improves the result. Attach the lines and tell Vizard Agent to use them as written; it voices them and directs the delivery, and you can steer that separately with notes on pace and tone.
Can it use a real actor's face or voice?
Do not ask for one. A named individual's likeness or voice is a rights question that has nothing to do with how the video was produced, and an original character described in your own words avoids it entirely.
Do I have to say it was AI-generated?
Check the rules where you are publishing. Several platforms and markets require synthetic media to be labelled, they differ from each other, and they change faster than any guide can usefully track.