Lights! Camera! AI-Action! Generating excitement and buzz for a new film is driven by an electrifying movie trailer. Traditionally, a top-tier trailer required a studio budget funding a production crew, expensive equipment, professional actors, lengthy filming, and extensive post-production polish.
We are giving a shoutout to Nicolas Neubert who has created the Genesis trailer with AI. The twitter post can be found at the bottom of the post.
But advances in artificial intelligence creation tools have democratized cinematic-quality trailer production, putting blockbuster capabilities within reach of anyone. With the strategic combination of leading AI platforms, a visually stunning, emotionally captivating trailer can be DIYed.
Let’s walk through the end-to-end filmmaker’s process of crafting a 1 minute movie trailer completely generated using AI technologies. With the following creative pipeline, the only limit is your imagination.
Set the Mood with Music
A trailer’s tone, pacing and rhythm are intrinsically tied to its musical score. As the foundation, thoughtfully choose an instrumental track from royalty-free libraries like Pixabay to avoid copyright issues. Listen for melodies that evoke the essence of your story across emotional beats from tender to tense. Match the crescendo sequence with critical unfolding plot points. This musical canvas sets the stage for epic visualization.
Script the Story with an AI Assistant
Drafting the narrative copy is where Claude comes in — Anthropic’s natural language AI that can write anything from text messages to screenplays. Claude has an innate grasp of human language and storytelling convention. Feed it the core premise, characters, settings, and pivotal moments that make the storyline pop. Keep descriptive sentences succinct and impactful. Let Claude work its literary magic to generate a script with the perfect emotional tenor and intrigue, just like a master movie voiceover artist.
Storyboard with AI-Generated Art
Now visually conceptualize key scenes with Midjourney, an AI that produces photorealistic images straight from textual descriptions. For each milestone moment, craft prompts capturing mood, detailed environments, character poses, color schemes, camera angles and lighting. Generate batch variations until you have a storyboard curation of stunning concept art worthy of the big screen. Midjourney unlocks worlds, creatures, and aesthetics far beyond live-action feasibility.
Animate an AI-Assisted Comic
To set scenes in motion, leverage RunwayML — an AI platform specialized in media synthesis and manipulation. Runway can ingest Midjourney images and reanimate them with cinematic flair. Describe movement sequences and camera work to turn illustrations into partial animations. Connect these AI-generated clips together into a flowing visual narrative accented by sound effects. This brings motion and dynamism to your storyboard while retaining Midjourney’s signature imaginative style.
Edit Artistically with Creative AI
Now unite all creative elements in CapCut, the premier video editing app. Arrange animated clips sequentially, overlay your scripted narration as voiceover, and synchronize the visual pacing to music cues. Embellish with AI-powered editing effects like color grading for mood, transitions, captions, and video filters available in CapCut. Finally, export your trailer in 4K resolution for internet-ready high-fidelity viewing.
Alternatively, editing tasks could involve more AI assistance. For example, Jasper.AI can auto-edit videos based on directives, applying scene sequencing, music integration, text overlays and more algorithmically. This automates labour-intensive video editing work. Creative oversight remains essential to achieving the intended look and feel.
Trailer Teaser for The Next Sci-Fi Hit
Let’s see this AI trailer technique in action for a futuristic sci-fi movie. The musical base could be an upbeat, techno track with energetic rhythms. Claude might generate a script describing how in a dystopian metropolis, a rebel leader (character visuals) fights a mind-controlling AI (evil robot visuals) that has brainwashed the population (cityscape visuals). The action-packed clash threatens the city’s fate as the hero races to shut down the AI permanently (fight sequence visuals).
This AI-generated voiceover combined with Midjourney’s imaginative digital artwork of characters, props, vehicles and environments creates a visually cohesive cinematic world. RunwayML animates key scenes — the hero rallying revolutionists, squared off against the AI — in a dynamic comic sequence. CapCut finally compiles a slick teaser promising an original sci-fi thrill ride.
The Possibilities are Endless
Whether your film vision trends more Pixar, Sundance or Hollywood, AI unleashes infinite creative possibilities previously unattainable. You control the entire trailer production process, leveraging automation powered by artificial intelligence. For indie creators, this democratization provides access to studio-quality production minus the massive budget.
While AI boosts efficient content generation, human creativity remains indispensable in providing art direction. Curate the most compelling pieces from AI generation based on your preferences. Iteratively guide the platforms towards your desired stylistic outcomes. AI excels most when boosted by human creativity, not replacing it.
Welcome to the frontier of automated entertainment. With these exponential generative AI tools, unleash your ideas on the world. Let your imagination soar — your next blockbuster awaits!
Nicolas Neubert on Twitter with his trailer Genesis
Some of you might have seen the post that Nicolas Neubert @iamneubert did on twitter. He just created a fantastic movie trailer with the help of AI. Nicolas have give us all something to try out and even given us a step by step guide how we reach the goal.
Truly exciting things to come!
