A scene played, not narrated
Give it a premise. The acts get written, the characters cast, and the model performs every line inside the shot. Fifteen, thirty or forty-five seconds of film.
Describe your idea, or paste your full script here…
Ex: tell the odyssey of Ulysses, king of Ithaca — his cunning against the Cyclops, the song of the sirens and his long journey home to Penelope, in a captivating epic tone.
Language
Effort
Film length
Look
Optional. Left on Default, the visual style is written from your film's own theme.
Visual style
Capture format
Optional — the camera, film stock or sensor the shot is faked through. Composes with any style.
From premise to played scene
Write the premise
One situation, one place. Keep the cast small.
Pick the length and the look
Fifteen, thirty or forty-five seconds; a look, or none at all.
Watch the scene play
Acts, characters and dialogue, performed inside the shots — ready to export.
Made with the short film tool
Why the short film tool
Characters who speak
The film is written in acts, with named characters and attributed dialogue. There is no voiceover track: the performance lives in the shot the model renders.
One look, held to the end
The look you pick becomes a palette that re-skins the character portraits, the storyboards and the final shots — so act three looks like act one.
Cinema or vertical
16:9 when the frame is the point, 9:16 when the feed is. Both examples below came out of the same tool, one in each.
Priced before you shoot
Length and quality rung are two explicit choices, each carrying its own credit badge — you know what the film costs before it exists.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from the narrative video tool?
How long is a short film?
Can I pick the voices?
Can I control the visual style?
Which aspect ratios?
What makes a good premise?
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