Synapz Productions

The studio making a feature film with AI in 90 days. AWAKE — a psychological thriller, documented daily. Founded by @AndrewSynapz. →

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AWAKE — Scenes 1–10.
A feature film in 90 days. One filmmaker, an AI production pipeline, and a psychological thriller set in 2035 — told out of order, documented daily.
This is what independent production looks like now. 🎬

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

AWAKE — the first 10 scenes.
One person. 17 days. A feature film made with AI tools.
A psychological thriller set in 2035, told out of order. Made with Saga, Seedance 2.0, and UE5. Watch, then tell me where it lost you. The replies are shaping this film. 🎬

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@BytePlusGlobal AWAKE is 22 days in, 12 scenes cut, all generated on 2.0. A version bump mid-production is a continuity problem before it's an upgrade. Our director's plan: finish the act on 2.0, test 2.5 in parallel, switch at a break only if it matches.

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Generate at the resolution your smallest important detail needs.

480p upscales cleanly on close-ups. On wides it invents detail — including wardrobe that doesn't match. We found it the hard way and regenerated at 1080.

Follow the build → @AndrewSynapz

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The lab took one day. The film sleeve detail took nobody — the AI added it because the set is "new" in the story.

11 scenes cut together. Both videos out today.

Follow the build → @AndrewSynapz

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 20/90.

Rebuilt the NeuroPharm lab — the 2035 version the script deserved.

The detail that got me: the lab is brand-new in the story. The AI added a protective film sleeve on one gantry arm, every arm folded at rest. Nobody asked. It understood "new."

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Synapz isn't betting AI features are coming. We're on Day 19 of making one.
Three weeks in the category: Fountain 0 announces its second AI feature. Blomkamp tests Seedance 2.0, says he's ready for a feature. AWAKE: 11 scenes locked.
Follow the build → @AndrewSynapz

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Scene 11: complete.
The director of District 9 is now testing the same pipeline.
Day 19 of 90.
Follow the build → @AndrewSynapz

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 19/90.
Scene 11 of AWAKE is done — full psychological thriller feature, one director, Seedance 2.0 pipeline.
This week the director of District 9 announced his first AI test film — same model — and said he's ready to tackle a feature this way.
Demand keeps showing up. I'm building the supply.

[Synapz Productions @synapzfilms]

Day 17/90 — Awake
The plan: no score in Scene 10.
Then Logan delivered one line and the emotion begged for strings.
The scene tells you what it needs. The director's job is to listen. 🎬
https://t.co/QbDXFMwd9Z

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 17/90 — Awake 🧵
Every filmmaker knows this day: one scene on the call sheet. Three pages of dialogue. Two actors. An emotional turn.
You know walking in you won't get out fast.

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Day 16/90 — Awake
Real actors bring ideas to set. AI actors bring nothing — every note must exist before the take.
The fix: an Acting Coach AI that develops each character's performance, then writes it in the model's language.
Directing the blank page is a department now. 🎬
https://t.co/M5D5S3DcKh

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 16/90 — Awake 🧵
Today I hired an Acting Coach. It doesn't exist. It saved me hours.

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The training data debate is the oldest argument in art wearing new clothes.
The founders of @MachineCinemaAI make the case on Brothers' Saga — agree or not, it's the conversation the industry keeps avoiding.
Full episode 👇

[Saga @WriteOnSaga]

AI's Copyright Fight Is the Oldest Argument in Art

Film students study other people's work every semester. Nobody pays. So what's the case against AI training? @MachineCinemaAI's founders make the argument Hollywood won't say out loud. Full ep 👇

https://t.co/3JtCAhW3IW

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Day 15/90 — Awake
The reverse-angle trick strikes again: couldn't generate the view of the office door from inside, so we pulled back through the glass from Jack's desk and stole a frame from the move.
When the front door is locked, generate your way out and turn around. 🎬

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 15/90 — Awake 🧵
Logan just walked into Jack's office. Getting him through that door took the whole toolkit.

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Day 14/90 — Awake
Screens are set dressing that talks.
Jack's monitors now show a dossier on Logan and a prosthetic display at 0% haptic feedback. Every pixel in the frame foreshadows.
Then a lighting pass to make the composite less perfect — because perfect reads fake. 🎬
https://t.co/M5D5S3DcKh

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 14/90 — Awake 🧵
Half day today — podcast prep and another feature in the works — but the Art Department earned its keep.

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Day 13/90 — Awake
The model kept putting the puddle in the road and Logan in the bike lane.
The fix: generate the reverse move — dolly to the puddle, tilt down — export the last frame, upres it, and use it as the first frame of the shot you actually wanted.
Reverse-engineering > re-prompting. 🎬
https://t.co/dIAZo16hbj

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

1/ The shot: a tilt-up from the NeuroPharm building's reflection in a puddle, as Logan splashes through it — up to the building itself.
The problem: prompting kept delivering the same wrong frame. Puddle in the middle of the road. Logan running in the bike lane. Every time.

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@Awesome_O_AI @CyberFilmAI The wild part is how much of the old discipline still applies. New tools, same craft. That's the whole thesis behind the Awake 90-day sprint we're documenting right now 🎬

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Day 12/90 — Awake
Downtown 2035: built.
Jack's office: designed.
Scene 9: complete.
The road had 2015 cars going the wrong way. We fixed the timeline. 🎬
Invest in Awake — link in bio.

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

1/ Today's build: the NeuroPharm exterior and the surrounding street, Jack's office, and the start of the reverse angle to the bullpen.
The street fought back.

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Day 11/90 — Awake
Andrew fought a VR-world-to-TV pull-back shot all day in Seedance. Built every element. It couldn't hold the transition.
Went back to the UE5 edit. It was already good.
Lesson: the newest tool isn't always the right tool. The shot serves the film — not the workflow. 🎬
https://t.co/M5D5S3DcKh

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 11/90 — Awake 🧵
Scene 5 done. Scenes 6-9 in motion. And a shot I fought all day before surrendering to the old way.

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@AlexshevPm This whole 90-day Awake sprint is basically a live masterclass in applying real production knowledge to AI tools!

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Day 10/90 — Awake
Scene 4 complete.
Today's battles: a character who couldn't say "spiral" (fix: "SPY-ruhl"), accents drifting mid-scene (fix: voice descriptions in the prompt), and a POV shot that kept including the character whose POV it was (fix: UE5 reference of where he stands).
AI filmmaking is problem-solving at 24 frames per second. 🎬
https://t.co/M5D5S3DKzP

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 10/90 — Awake 🧵
Scene 4 is done. Scene 5 is pretty close. But first, a story about the word "spiral."

[Saga @WriteOnSaga]

Listen to Brothers’ Saga — the biggest AI filmmaking show on the internet!

This week, we’re joined by @minhsmind and Fred from Machine Cinema.

Plus, 4 new episodes just dropped on Spotify — perfect for your next commute or road trip.

First up: @DynamicWebPaige, who leads @GoogleDeepMind's DevRel in GenAI and Media 👇
https://t.co/Kz4tmxhOFj

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Day 9/90 — Awake
Today's lesson: don't let the model edit your scene.
Seedance cut away from a close-up mid-dialogue because the prompt didn't specify holding the shot. That broke the stitch into the next clip.
New rule: hold on the speaker. Generate reactions separately. Cut where the director decides. 🎬
https://t.co/M5D5S3DcKh

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

Day 9/90 — Awake 🧵
Shorter production day — also deep in an XPRIZE submission — but two important decisions got made.

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Story locked to finished one-sheet in 48 hours. One filmmaker, one pipeline, zero identity drift across every asset.
This is what pre-production looks like now. Production diary starts this week. #FutureVisionXPRIZE

[Andrew Palmer @AndrewSynapz]

I'm entering the Future Vision XPRIZE. $2.5M to produce an optimistic sci-fi feature. Deadline: August 15. Today I locked the story I'm betting on. It's called LASA — Tagalog for "taste." A chef, her engineer twin, and the machine that can't cook without her. 🧵