AI film test · atelier brief

Sartoria Vellani.
The workroom wakes up.

A 14 second excerpt made for your brief, with a fictional atelier instead of your label. The camera enters the dark workroom, the ceiling lights come on down the long room, and the same two tailors in white coats carry the film: shears through wool, the sewing machine, the steam iron. One Italian line, English subtitles, fine grain, stone and white palette. The last frame melts back into the first, so it plays as a seamless loop.

The player loops, so you can watch the loop point.
16:9 · 1920 × 1080 · 24 fps4 shots, 2 recurring cast membersItalian voice, English subtitlesColour and black and white gradeSeamless loop

One reference sheet for the whole cast

Consistency starts before anything moves. Each cast member gets a fixed sheet: full figure, face, hands and wardrobe details. Every shot is generated from that sheet, never from text alone, so faces, glasses, rings, the tape measure and the wrist pincushion stay the same from clip to clip.

Reference sheet with two tailors in white coats
  • Tailor oneSilver hair in a low bun, tortoiseshell glasses, yellow tape measure, silver ring on the right hand.
  • Tailor twoDark wavy hair, trimmed beard, sleeves rolled, grey shirt, pincushion on the left wrist.
  • How I check itEvery clip is scrubbed frame by frame for drifting faces, extra fingers and changing wardrobe before it goes into the edit. Anything that drifts is regenerated, not hidden.

The four shots

Generated as stills from the reference sheet, then animated shot by shot with a written camera and action direction each.

Dark atelier with one lamp on
Shot 1

Lights on

Slow push into the dark room, the lamps come on one after another.
Tailor cutting wool with shears
Shot 2

Shears through wool

Close on hands and face, the cut lands on "poi le mani".
Tailor at the sewing machine
Shot 3

The machine

Navy wool under the needle, documentary drift.
Tailor steam pressing a jacket
Shot 4

Steam

Pressing the lapel, both tailors in frame, then back to the dark room.

How I'd make your 60 second film

Your shot list, reference stills, palette and wordmark go in; a graded, mixed and subtitled film comes out, in colour and black and white, plus every raw clip.

Step 1

Cast and look

Reference sheets for each cast member and a look frame per location in your palette, approved before any motion.

Step 2

About 11 clips

Stills from the sheets, then motion per shot. I pick the model that renders hands and fabric best for each shot and check every frame.

Step 3

Voice and subtitles

Your Italian lines with a native Italian voice, checked by transcribing them back word by word, then timed to the cut.

Step 4

Finish

Edit, grade in colour and black and white, grain, sound design and mix, English subtitles, a clean loop point, raw clips.

The Italian line, and how it was checked

Voice line

Qui, ogni giacca nasce nel silenzio. Prima la luce, poi le mani.

Here, every jacket is born in silence. First the light, then the hands.

Check
  • Native Italian narrator voice from the ElevenLabs library, slowed slightly for a calm documentary register
  • Transcribed back with Whisper: detected as Italian with 100 % confidence, every word matches the script
  • Word timings from the transcript drive the subtitles and the cut to the hands
  • For your film a native speaker can sign off the lines before the final mix
1,150 $fixed

for the complete 60 second film, first graded shots within 3 days of receiving your shot list

  • 60 second looping film, about 11 clips, consistent cast
  • Italian voiceover from your lines, English subtitles
  • Colour and black and white versions, graded and mixed
  • All raw clips
  • Two revision rounds

Tools used for this test: Nano Banana Pro for the reference sheet and stills, Grok Imagine for motion, ElevenLabs for voice and sound effects, ffmpeg for edit, grade and subtitles. Sartoria Vellani is fictional; the people are AI generated. Ambient score and room sound are generated for the test.