Your direction
The direction field is where you describe the film in your head. What works, what to leave out, Voice Mode, the Enrich my idea button that writes a director's treatment around your idea, and the exact prompts that made the showcase films.
#The field
Plain language, any language, any length: a sentence is enough and a full treatment fits. The director model reads it together with your references, the lyrics if you allowed them, and the analysis of the song, and writes the treatment and every scene from it. It is optional, and a picture can do its job, but when you know what you want, this is where you say it.
Rather speak it? The microphone in the field opens Voice Mode: talk through the film the way you would to a director, and Apply Prompt (or Enter) puts the transcript in the field, where you can edit it like typed text.
#What a good direction contains
- A place and a time. "A quiet bedroom at night." "The illegal Paris catacombs, one night." "A corporate office." The engine builds the world from here.
- What happens. One sentence of story is worth a page of adjectives: "as the music grows, gravity slowly turns upside down." "He falls through an open manhole and transforms."
- Where it arrives. Films that end somewhere read as films. "The reference image is where the story arrives, not where it starts." "Lands on the cover's throne." "Climbs out at dawn changed."
- The look, named. A director, a decade, four colours: "Wes Anderson's pastel symmetry: mustard, mint, powder pink and burgundy." "High-contrast monochrome, two light tubes." Named once, it holds for every scene.
- Who is in it, and who is not. Name your main character and what the photos are for ("his photos only keep his face, hair and beard"). If the frames should be empty, say what fills them instead of who does not.
#Examples
A few directions, word for word, from the films in Examples. Two of those films had no direction at all; they are on the references page.
| Film | Direction | With |
|---|---|---|
| Nan Nan (indie rock) | "A quiet bedroom at night. As the music grows, gravity slowly turns upside down. The reference image is where the story arrives, not where it starts." | One drawing |
| Fallin' (R&B) | "Wes Anderson's pastel symmetry: mustard, mint, powder pink and burgundy. A hotel, a train, a letter that never gets opened." | One candid photo |
| Lost in Catacombs (industrial metal) | "One night in the illegal Paris catacombs, shot as first-person helmet-cam POV. Descend, get lost, meet the strange, climb out at dawn changed. Black and white." | Six real photographs of the tunnels |
| Underworld (J-pop) | "A bullied student walks home in the rain, falls through an open manhole and transforms. Not into a hero: into a villain in black and purple." | Five character sheets, two mood frames |
| Demon Wants To Be Free (hard techno) | "A musician trapped in a corporate office. Demons gather in reflections as allies, urging him to resign; when the track surges the office fractures into a vast dark landscape and he walks out with them." | The cover art |
| 13 (EBM) | "An autobiographical origin story: two years of solitude, poverty and discipline, shot like supernatural horror, building to the birth of Amoan on the cover's throne." | Cover, logo, tattoo photo, three portraits |
| Eucalyptus (darkwave) | "Berkan enters the world of his girlfriend's drawings. Her three artworks are the visual canon; his photos only keep his face, hair and beard." | Three scanned artworks, five phone photos |
#Enrich my idea
The Enrich my idea button at the top right of the field keeps every word you wrote and adds a director's treatment underneath it, in your language: the concept, the world and its look, the cast, rules the film keeps, a structure that follows the sections of your song, the camera, the tone, and what to avoid. It knows your song and your characters, and it builds on your idea rather than replacing it. A short idea gets a full treatment; a detailed direction only gets what it was missing.
It takes about twenty seconds (the field says Writing your director's treatment… about 20 seconds while it works) and costs 2 credits; without a plan you get a few free a day. The result is plain text in the field: cut what you do not like, keep what you do, or press again to add more. It is a writing assistant, not a generator: nothing is storyboarded, and pressing Next afterwards does not enrich again. It works before the song is uploaded too.
Once the storyboard exists, the developed text also appears under the scenes as Your developed direction, so you can quote it when rewriting a scene or talking to the chat.
#Leaving it empty
You can. Press Next · Create storyboard with an empty field and a dialog asks whether you meant it: "Go wild. Tell us the clip only you would make." Continue without a description starts the storyboard from the song, the references and the quick styles alone. The showcase films Off and Surgical Manipulator were made this way, from a picture and nothing else.
#Things worth knowing
- The direction is saved with the project and shown again when you reopen a draft. It is locked once scenes exist; from then on you change the film scene by scene with Rewrite, or across many scenes at once in the chat.
- Genre is read from the audio, not from your text. Writing "techno" does not change the analysis; writing "cut fast on the kicks" is unnecessary, because the edit already does.
- Lyrics are separate. The lyrics checkbox on the song card is what feeds the words in; the direction is where you say which lines matter.
- Singing is separate too. Lip sync decides how a sung scene is filmed; the direction decides who performs and where ("she sings the chorus to camera from the rooftop").
- Humour is allowed. A parody, a joke song or a funny lyric can get a funny film; the director reads the tone from your song and your words.
- Research the world (Professional) adds real facts and photos of a subject to the brief before the story is written; it has its own page.
Can I write in Turkish, Japanese, German…?
Yes. The director reads any language and writes the treatment and the scene stories back in the language you used. The image and motion stages get their own prompts underneath, so the language of your direction never costs quality.
Should I describe every scene?
You can, and long treatments are honoured (13 was made from one). But the engine is good at inventing scenes around a clear arc, so three sentences with a beginning, a turn and an ending usually beat a list of thirty shots. Scene-level control comes afterwards, in the storyboard.
Does Enrich change my text?
No. Your words stay exactly as you typed them, at the top; the treatment is added underneath. Read it, cut what you do not like, and only then press Next.