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From Idea To Script: Writing a Film Script Using AI Tools (OpenAI ChatGPT & Midjourney)
How to integrate AI tools into your screenwriting process
AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney are revolutionizing script development by helping screenwriters generate and iterate ideas with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
(There’s a catch, though: you have to know how to avoid the tendency toward repetition, cliché, and vague plot points that comes with very generalized prompts)
In this article, we will provide an overview of basic techniques for using these AI tools to generate ideas and create pitches.
Phase 1: Brainstorming story ideas
Writing for the screen means coming up with killer ideas. Killer ideas require a lot of research and iteration. And that’s exactly where the power of AI comes in!
Tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney can save you a lot of time by producing ideas quickly and efficiently. While they can’t magically spit out ready-made killer ideas (at least not yet), they can sort of act as a co-author that you can bounce ideas off of.
All you need is a prompt that the AI tool can work with.
Keep in mind that the quality of the ideas that the AI generates depends on the quality of your prompt. So it’s a good idea to spend some time investigating different prompts until you find the ones that fit your workflow:
Idea generation with Zero-Shot Prompts
Here are a few ways you can generate ideas with the ChatGPT web interface. A basic zero-shot prompt already yields some interesting results that you can expand on:
You can refine the above prompt by adding open-ended, vague properties to give the…
