{"id":1859,"date":"2023-12-28T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T23:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiforfolks.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2023-12-28T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T23:02:45","slug":"ai-generated-movie-trailer-echoes-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiforfolks.com\/ai-generated-movie-trailer-echoes-of-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"I Made an AI-Generated Movie Trailer in 3 Hours: Here&#8217;s How You Can Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I embarked on an intriguing project: creating a movie trailer for a fictional film using various AI tools available today. My goal was to see how difficult it would be to quickly produce a visually appealing, coherent trailer for an imaginary movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this article, I\u2019ll unveil the video and detail the process of crafting an AI-generated movie trailer. As a blogger with little experience generating video clips, it took me about 3 hours to produce a 45-second trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to check out the final product and learn how I put it all together. You will see that you, too, can likely easily do something similar!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI-Generated Movie Trailer for &#8220;Echoes of Tomorrow&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The end result: my movie trailer for the imaginary film entitled &#8220;Echoes of Tomorrow&#8221; can be seen here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"AI-generated movie trailer for imaginary film \u201cEchoes of Tomorrow\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wD3AnHpUjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI Tools I used:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chat.openai.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChatGPT<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/midjourney.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midjourney<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pika.art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pika.art<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/suno.ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suno.ai<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/elevenlabs.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elevenlabs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">My Processes for Making This Movie Trailer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to create the movie, I used a variety of tools, and assembled everything in iMovie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ChatGPT for Concept and Writing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I started out using ChatGPT to generate the basic concept of the movie trailer. I suggested something science fiction or fantasy, as I thought that would work best with Pika.art&#8217;s image animation capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ChatGPT responded with a storyboard set of about 8 scenes, with brief descriptions of each scene in the list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Midjourney for Image Generation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For each of the shots in the trailer, I wanted to start with a basic image that I could feed into Pika.art to create an animation. I fed the description from ChatGPT, along with some modifications, into Midjourney v6, and it produced the basic images I was looking for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I needed to run it through multiple times to get an image I was satisfied with. Midjourney still struggles with consistent characters (you can <a href=\"https:\/\/aiforfolks.com\/how-to-create-consistent-characters-in-midjourney\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1150\">do them to some degree, but it&#8217;s a pain<\/a>), so I tried to avoid that with this trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pika.art for Image Animation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I generated each of the still images for each shot in the scene, I brought those into Pika.art to make the animations. Pika allows you to upload a source image and also to describe what you would like to have happen in the animation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It works wonderfully well, especially for a free tool (at least for now), but sometimes you have to run it multiple times to get something you like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also very nice that you can easily add additional time to a specific shot  in order to lengthen the clip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Suno.ai for the Background Music<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I had the trailer shots complete, I needed an appropriate soundtrack. I used Suno.ai to generate a film soundtrack song, though it took me a few times. Suno kept wanting to add vocals to the track or wanted to make it sound to uplifting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, though, I was able to get a suitable soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ElevenLabs for the Voiceover<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I fed the voiceover track that ChatGPT generated for me into Elevenlabs, using the default &#8220;Josh&#8221; voice, to produce the speech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Putting it Together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I uploaded all of these pieces into iMovie, and used some of the simple fade and transitions to make it feel natural. I had to split up the audio track so that it (sorta) aligned with the appropriate scenes in the video, but otherwise it was all pretty easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trailer complete!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I have very little experience with video, and have not really used iMovie or any of the more powerful video editors out there. I was able to assemble a reasonable trailer in about 2-3 hours. It&#8217;s amazing how easy these tools are to work with, and the potential they hold is great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more fun inspiring AI generated art, see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aiforfolks.com\/classic-artworks-reinvented-with-midjourney\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1756\">20 Classic Artworks Reinvented in Unexpected Styles with Midjourney<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aiforfolks.com\/famous-landmarks-reimagined-in-midjourney\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1499\">25 Famous Landmarks Reimagined in Midjourney<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n                <div class=\"ml-embedded\" data-form=\"mub0dk\"><\/div>\n            \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I embarked on an intriguing project: creating a movie trailer for a fictional film using various AI tools available today. 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