The Masque has four characters who appear across the whole film.
Keeping a face the same from shot to shot is still the hardest problem in AI filmmaking. Here's what actually works.
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5. So I generate in batches, not in story order.
Every shot of one character in one session, same references loaded, same locked block. Consistency holds far better inside a session than across days.
Everyone obsesses over editing and story structure but ignores the one thing that decides if anyone sees the video at all: the thumbnail.
Here's how I actually think about thumbnail & key art design for our horror AI short films.
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5. Last thing, the text on the thumbnail and the words in the title are doing two different jobs.
Title = the narrative hook (what's this video about).
Thumbnail text = the evidence/consequence fragment (a detail, a number, a rule).
Split the work. Don't repeat yourself.
4. Every shot in Whispers From the Dark goes through multiple keyframe passes before it's usable. It's slow, it's iterative, and it's the actual craft behind AI filmmaking that people don't see in the finished product.