Roy Price

Founder @number1bw. Formerly: launched Amazon Video, Amazon Studios. I am always right about show business things.

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Microdramas are booming. Unfortunately, most of them are ridiculous soap operas about marrying your dom billionaire boss.

Let’s build a new network.

On N1BW, creators get 70% of revenue … keep movie & TV rights … no exclusivity!

Bring scripts!

https://t.co/Df22ly6Nle

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Well, that was fast! The @Number1bw app is now available in the App Store!

Bold new series from independent creators, made outside the studio system, free to start watching. It turns out we can have nice things!

https://t.co/aWxP17YCre

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Submitting @Number1bw as an app.

Let’s see how long this takes!

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1. Love YouTube, but zero shows that would be recognizable as “good television” are on YouTube.

2. None of this pertains to international. There hasn’t been an observed decline in that category. This is something specific to Hollywood.

3. Fewer projects are made today, but not 80% fewer.

4. Wouldn’t you think that if (a) there are fewer slots, and (b) execs can identify exceptional shows, that exceptional shows would occupy a larger share of the slots? One of those things must not be true.

5. I do not recall a profusion of excellent scripts at the beginning of streaming, and if they existed, I’m not sure why they couldn’t have been made at HBO or Showtime. I do not believe that there are fewer exceptional ideas or scripts today than in 2013-2015, but they are being selected less frequently.

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If you write for Variety or you are otherwise part of the Hollywood groupthink consensus, how do you explain — even just to yourself — the decline in Hollywood’s measurable quality over the past 9 years?

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Submitting @Number1bw as an app.

Let’s see how long this takes!

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@EntStrategyGuy You can make the same chart for almost every network. If you do it by customer ratings, like on IMDb. It’s not Disney specific.

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Revolutions in film and television tend to follow technological change.

1910s — Feature films
1920s — Sound
1940s — Television
1970s — Portable, low-cost filmmaking
1980s — VHS
1990s — Cable
2010s — Streaming
2020s — AI

AI will allow for a lot of independent creative experimentation and to shows and movies that would not otherwise have been made.

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@JosephKahn @RonenV It really is. They need a professional license without such extreme moderation.

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🔥 Really good

[Gossip Goblin @Gossip_Goblin]

Nameless Beings

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@WhitStillman @WSJBooks His memoir is one of the best.

[Supertake @Supertake]

“Hollywood and the market for IP will be decentralized and individual IPs will be tradeable”

— @RoyPrice

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@VanFalk_ @AbbeyRavens Looks pretty good!

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AI could erode our ability to read and write. Idea: each year we send 200 promising young scholars to a remote monastic boarding school. They spend 8 years studying modern and ancient classics. Final exams written by hand in blue books ofc.

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Wow THE SERPENT CHRONICLES — an AutoPilot pilot is pretty interesting… Time traveling spies. N1BW made it last night. based on an idea by Gia Skova from California.

https://t.co/DPLfSccobC

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Day 3 no internet

A bit inconvenient @Ask_Spectrum

(Why does paying for connectivity not depend on getting connectivity?)

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@beneverard I think the worst is “why now?”

It’s kind of like saying “I haven’t read this.”

Shd be perfectly permissible to say why now is because it’s good and good is always in season.

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@papadupapadu @surRIHL @LoLoLumi88 @dreamina_ai 🔥

[PAPADU PAPADU @papadupapadu]

TIME, CUT INTO STRIPS AND WOVEN.

FIGURE IN SAND | A @surRIHL CUT
DIRECTED BY: @papadupapadu + @LoLoLumi88

@dreamina_ai #dreaminacpp

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Really good!

[Monique Pryce @second_bassoon]

If your AI characters sound fake, the fix is almost always in how you write and DIRECT the dialogue in your prompt.

I recently started on the dialogue-heavy scenes for my AI feature film about Beethoven, and too many of the lines kept coming out wrong.

They’d sound too theatrical, too monotone, or too much like a practice read-through between actors.

(all this despite the fact that Seedance 2.5 is fantastic when it comes to realism.)

So through a whole lot of trial and error, I've found that these 5 things made the biggest impact on the quality of the dialogue delivery in my generations:

1. Paying close attention to the written punctuation used.

2. Breaking long lines into shorter ones, with intentional pauses.

3. Using bodily actions as punctuation (this one gave the biggest improvement BY FAR! In the attached clip, note the sniffles in between Beethoven's lines. That alone made the delivery feel much more natural.)

4. Using "anchor gestures" (he lifts his finger as if to say "one sec")

5. Just split your generations in two (stupid simple, but it really makes a difference.)

So if your characters keep sounding like they're reading from a teleprompter, give this a try!

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@boardyai Upload away!

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We are now doing Autopilot weekly. But if you can't wait, we're announcing Make It Now.

As the name suggests, we will make it now -- and you can even put yourself in your show!

[Number One Best Website @Number1bw]

AutoPilot is going weekly. Pitch a show, vote, and every Friday we'll produce a trailer for the winning idea.

Or ... introducing Make It Now: Skip the vote. We'll make your show promo in about an hour for $9.99 — starring you, if you like!

https://t.co/dUhV2IR0tw