One sentence, one film

You have never had a camera crew. Now you do.

Describe a shot and it gets filmed. Say what happens next and the film gets longer. 2 guides on how to write for one.

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Straight answers

Start with the question you came with.

The short version of each, in full, on this page. The guide behind it goes further.

How long can a film get?

There is no fixed limit. Each shot is five or ten seconds, and every new one continues from the last frame of the one before, so a film grows a shot at a time for as long as you have credits. What limits it in practice is drift: the further you go from the first shot, the more the look wanders, and the fix is to say what should stay the same rather than only what should change.

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Is the footage real?

No. Every frame is generated by a model. Nothing was filmed, no camera was involved, and no clip made in The Director is a record of a real place, person or event. The app labels generated results and so does this site.

What does a clip cost?

Credits, and they are counted in seconds of footage. One credit is one second at 768p, or two seconds at 480p — so a five-second shot at the higher resolution costs five credits, and the same shot at the lower one costs three. A subscription comes with an allowance each period, and subscribers who run out can buy more.

The library

2 topics, 2 guides, no product rankings.

Written by the Jazz Games team. Where the technique runs out, the page says so.

1 guides

Writing shots

A prompt is a shot list, not a wish. These are the parts of a sentence a video model actually acts on, and the ones it quietly ignores.

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Continuity

The hard part is not the first five seconds. It is the next five looking like they belong to the same film.

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Writing shots

Writing a shot that works

Subject, light, camera and lens are the four things a video model reliably acts on. Everything else is decoration — and knowing which is which is most of the skill.

4 min read Continuity

Keeping a film consistent

The hard part is not the first five seconds — it is the next five looking like they belong to the same film. What continues, what does not, and how to write for it.

4 min read

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Nothing here is for sale

No "best of" lists, no affiliate links, no paid mentions. Products appear as categories, never as a thing to buy. We make an app; that is the whole commercial relationship, and it is visible.

Technique, with its shelf life stated

A phrasing that works today works against one version of one model. Where a result is likely to move under the next release, the page says so rather than presenting a trick as a rule.

Every frame here is generated

Nothing on this site was filmed. No clip is a record of a real place, person or event, and we do not publish generated likenesses of real people — in the guides or in the app.

How these guides are written

The Director

What a guide cannot do is shoot it for you.

Everything above is technique. The app is the part where it happens: write a sentence, get a shot back, and then keep directing — each new shot picking up from the last frame of the one before.

  • One sentence to start — a place, a light, something moving.
  • Then keep going, a shot at a time, with no end to the reel.
  • Export the whole cut as one file when it is finished.
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