One of the first creators who used Sora has shared his rare experience with the AI-based text-to-video super powerful platform. It appears that in order to create something, you need much more than a simple prompt.
No need to hire a VFX specialist or camera operator. You can get the footage, CGI, and VFX via prompts, and assemble them together in post. Hence, it enhanced the power of the independent creator. Note that Sora is still a very new platform, and it’s learning and training at an exponential rate. A year from now, Sora will deliver IMAX-quality 8K footage, including ultra-slow-motion imagery.
How to use Sora
The guys at shy kids, which is a group of creatives, filmmakers, and animators, were interviewed by NoFilmSchool about their work called Air Head — a video created based on Sora. According to them, the creative process is complex and doesn’t depend on one simple prompt. In fact, creating the movie took some time, and involved a multi-prompts strategy, editing, sound design, and color grading like any other project.
10-20 minutes for one prompt
According to shy kids, after you write a prompt on Sora, you have to wait about 10-20 minutes till there’s an output, which you can not anticipate. On Air Head, there were many outputs derived from many prompts. The team wrote these prompts based on the script. That means you’d better have a script. Sora is not a platform to throw your ideas into text and see what you get. As a creator, those prompts must have defined goals, and you need to act like you are filming a scene based on a script. After the shy kids got all their video sequences, they began the post-production process.
Post-production (=post prompt) phase
The post-prompt phase included sound design, editing, and color grading, just like any other filmmaking project. However, when using AI text to video, the results are surrealistic, hence, it’s harder and more challenging to connect the dots and assemble the puzzle. Nevertheless, this method promises that you will get an intriguing final result.
Democratization of filmmaking
According to shy kids, one of the solid pros of Sora is the democratization of filmmaking. No need to hire a VFX specialist or camera operator. You can get the footage, CGI, and VFX via prompts, and assemble them together in post. Hence, it enhanced the power of the independent creator. Note that Sora is still a very new platform, and it’s learning and training at an exponential rate. A year from now, Sora will deliver IMAX-quality 8K footage, including ultra-slow-motion imagery. OpenAI founder knows what he’s doing in Hollywood right now…
Explore the BTS of Air Head to learn more about the process of prompt-based independent filmmaking:
