Plan your own
day-in-the-life.
A one-character film is easy to start and hard to mess up — if you plan it on paper first. Fill these sheets in before you open the AI video tool. Don't aim for perfect; aim for clear.
Pick one protagonist
One person we follow all day. Give them a name, a job, a personality. Consistency starts with you.
Map their day in beats
Arrive → settle → focus → connect → break → wind-down. 8–12 short moments is plenty.
Gather real reference
Use actual photos or renders of the real spaces. Don't let the model invent rooms.
Write one look, once
Decide the style + camera rules (e.g. "sketch overlay, shot on ARRI, shallow depth of field") and reuse them on every shot.
Storyboard before you generate
Sketch each beat as a rough frame with a camera note. The board is your shot list.
Generate → pick → stitch
Make a few takes per shot, keep the best, assemble in order. Done.
Real architecture in, stylised architecture out. Whatever you feed the model — keep the walls, windows and furniture exactly where they are. You're restyling the space, not redesigning it.
Who are we following?
Write them down, then sketch them. This becomes your reusable character reference.
One frame per beat.
Rough sketch in the box, the action on the first line, the camera move on the second. scribbles are fine.
Keep going.
Most day-in-the-life films land around 8–12 beats. Use what you need; leave the rest blank.