Self-directed / Spec concept
Five Minutes
A two-episode AI narrative built around a recurring character and a developing story.
Role: End-to-End AI Video Production
Brief
Create a two-episode cinematic series inspired by 1980s film aesthetics. Develop story-driven scenes with a cohesive period look, expressive lighting, and consistent characters across both episodes.
Production challenge
Keep both characters recognizable across episodes and hotel locations, maintain the period atmosphere, and make the photograph in the reveal legible within a short running time.
Result
The final photograph changes the meaning of the encounter, completing the story across the two episodes.
Tools & workflow
Developed the story and dialogue, planned the scene sequence and character maps, generated and iterated the scenes, checked character continuity and edited both episodes.
- Nano Banana Pro — character maps
- Seedance 2.5 — AI video generation
Deliverables
- Episode one — 25 seconds
- Episode two — 20 seconds