AI mini drama generator
Scenes AI makes serialized vertical drama — episodes built so the viewer needs the next one. A mini drama differs from a one-off short in exactly two ways: the ending opens a question instead of closing one, and the cast and the world persist across episodes. The cliffhanger is structural, not a flourish, and the character sheets are series assets that carry forward untouched.
How it is structured
- Cold open
- recap-in-action
- escalation
- reversal
- escalation
- episode climax
- cliffhanger
The script is written to this shape, and you approve it before anything is generated.
What you end up with
- An episode that ends on a concrete new question — a reveal, an arrival, a decision withheld.
- The same faces and the same rooms as your last episode, because the references carry over rather than being regenerated.
- Characters who speak on camera, lip-synced, each holding one fixed voice across every episode.
- Subtitles on by default, because feed viewing is muted viewing.
- A finished MP4 at up to 4K, vertical or any other shape you pick.
The shape an episode follows
Cold open on carry-over tension or in media res, then recap-in-action — only what this episode needs, dramatized rather than narrated. Then escalation, a reversal, a second escalation, the episode climax, and the cliffhanger. One episode answers one dramatic question and opens another. The last scene never resolves what it raises.
Paced like the genre, not like a short film
- Melodrama pacing — shorter shots than a standalone story, with a confrontation beat every 15 to 20 seconds.
- Dialogue-forward: two-character confrontations are the engine of the genre.
- Continuity chains through confrontation peaks, so a scene plays as one unbroken camera move.
- Hard cuts between locations, for momentum rather than decoration.
Why the cast is the product
In a serialized format, cross-episode identity is the thing being sold. Character sheets are treated as series assets: on a sequel episode the carried entries are final and are not regenerated, and a drifted face on a recurring character is always a re-roll rather than close enough. Two to four recurring characters and two or three reused environments — the apartment, the office, the stairwell — are what make it read as one show.
If you want a one-off instead
Pick Story rather than Mini drama and the ending closes instead of opening: a character with a want, an obstacle, a turn, and a resolution the climax has earned. Same cast consistency, same engines, different structure. It is the right choice when you want a video about something rather than the first episode of something.
What it costs
Pay as you go: one credit is one US dollar, with no subscription and no expiry. A video costs the clips, one generated still per scene, the narration and one music track — and you approve a scrubbable preview before any clips are bought, so you never pay for a cut you have not seen.
Related
- UGC video generatorThe opposite register — unpolished, and made to look filmed on a phone.
- Character consistencyHow four-view reference sheets keep one face across every scene.
- Multi-episode seriesCarry your cast and locations into the next episode automatically.
- Pricing and calculatorPrice a whole video before you make it. Pay as you go, no subscription.
FAQ
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