From idea to shots: a short film
Plan the film with the Director, keep your characters, make each shot on the model that suits it, and download the takes for your edit. Six steps from an idea to the shots.
1. Tell the Director the story
Say what happens, shot by shot, in your own words. The Director plans the job with you: its goal, its steps, what it assumes and the rules it keeps, each one yours to change.
“A short film in four shots: an old fisherman mends his net at dawn, sees a storm coming, hauls his boat up the beach, and watches the rain from his doorway.”
For the kind of film this makes, see Short Films.
2. Make a still of each character
Ask for a picture of each character as they'll look in the film, and of each place the story comes back to. Settle the look in a still before any shot is made.
3. Keep the characters
Choose a still of a character on your board, press Keep as character, and send: the Director keeps the picture as a character in your Assets.
Name the character in a shot, and its pictures ride that job as references, on a model that takes them. When the Director offers to keep a place or a look from a result, press the offer, and it's kept in your Assets too, free.
4. Make each shot on the model that suits it
Each shot is its own job, on its own card, with its price on Generate. No render is charged until you press it.
Give a spoken line to Veo 3.1; a long take, up to 30 seconds, to Seedance 2.5 or Wan 3.0; and a run of timed shots in one clip to Kling 3.0 Pro.
Pick the model under Models in the chat, or let Auto choose and say why.
5. Open a shot on a still, or with references
A shot can open on a still of your character as its first frame, on 31 of Thisbe's 52 video models. Or it can carry the character's pictures as references, on 17 of the 52, among them Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0, and on Veo 3.1's Lite and Fast tiers at 8 seconds. A clip takes one or the other, never both.
To open on a still, choose it on your board and press Animate: it goes to the Director as the start frame.
6. Download the takes for your edit
Thisbe doesn't cut the film together. Each take downloads, ready for the editor you use: choose it on your board and press Download, or download it from your Library.
Timed shots in one clip
On Kling 3.0 Pro, a Prompt written as timed shots runs as one clip of several shots. Write each shot on its own line, starting with its times, such as [0:00–0:04], the shots back to back from the clip's start to its end.
Written any other way, it runs as one shot. A run of timed shots can open on a start frame, but can't also end on one.