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Let’s Make a Movie Teaser With AI

How to use free generative AI tools to make a teaser trailer.

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Daniel Nest
Aug 15, 2024
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Generative AI doesn’t need to be all about productivity and ROI.

You can use it for kid-friendly games and activities or to create fun image series.

But also, you now have enough free, off-the-shelf AI tools to put together a short movie or a movie trailer without ever leaving your seat.

So that’s exactly what we’ll be doing today.

We’ll try to make a teaser trailer for a dystopian sci-fi movie, consisting of several separate shots stitched together.

We’ll involve AI at every step, including brainstorming, music, sound effects, image creation, and animation.

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The process

Here are the steps and the free tools we can use for each.

  1. Brainstorm ideas & flesh out the concept.

    1. Claude 3.5 Sonnet

    2. Google Gemini 1.5 Pro

    3. …or any other free LLM

  2. Create starting frames for each scene.

    1. FLUX.1 Pro

    2. Ideogram

    3. …or any other free text-to-image model

  3. Bring the images to life.

    1. Kling AI

    2. Luma Dream …

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