I cloned a cinematic video (The 6 Levels of AI Filmmaking)

The intro of this video isn't original, It's inspired by Luda's "Got any hobbies?" — right down to the title being "got many jobs?". His film is the reason I started paying attention to how an intro is actually built: the macro shots on the table, the doodles scribbled over the footage, holding on a face about two seconds longer than feels comfortable. What I got out of copying it beat for beat was the thing I actually needed. You learn more rebuilding one film you love than you do watching fifty you like. Four months ago I had never made an AI film. Last Saturday I taught my first class about it. This is that class, cut down to the twenty minutes that matter — the six levels of AI filmmaking, from typing a prompt and hoping, to a system that hands you finished work while you make coffee. Most people's AI films look the same because they never leave level one. Here is the whole ladder: 1 — PROMPT · you type it, and it gives you a stranger 2 — REFERENCE · you show it instead of telling it 3 — MEMORY · your folders answer, so you never teach it twice 4 — BLOCKING · you stand in the room before the camera does 5 — DNA · your taste, written down, plus everyone else's notes 6 — AUTOPILOT · it proposes, you approve Everything I used in this video is free and linked below. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ REELIX EXPLAINER — every lesson from these sessions, free, no account needed: https://danneytrieu.github.io/vibe-fi... ▸ THE LIVE SESSIONS — the calendar, come to the next one: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/cale... ▸ HIGGSFIELD — the engine I generate on: https://higgsfield.ai/?fpr=nguyen61 This is my referral link: same price for you, a small credit to the sessions. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 0:00 The film that got me here 1:09 How it was made 3:35 What this is 4:12 The class begins 9:11 Level 1 — Prompt 11:53 Level 2 — References 13:10 Level 3 — Memory 14:36 Level 4 — Blocking 17:04 Level 5 — DNA 18:01 Level 6 — Automation 18:49 What almost everyone gets wrong 22:10 The tools, free ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE ▸ LUDA — one of my favourite channels on YouTube. The opening of this video is my homage to his film "Got any hobbies?" — right down to my title being "Got many jobs?". The doodles over the footage, the timing, the whole feel of it, I learned by watching him. Watch his:    • "Got any hobbies?"   ▸ JAKE VAN CLIEF and THE ICM COMMUNITY — Jake put me in front of a room and let me teach before I felt ready, and the room gave up a Saturday and asked the questions that made this worth cutting. The lesson is theirs as much as mine. https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes ▸ THE HIGGSFIELD COMMUNITY — for the engine, and for answering the things I could not work out on my own. https://higgsfield.ai/?fpr=nguyen61 ▸ KASRA DESIGN — the collage animation sequences in this video are me learning from their Dwayne Johnson piece. I studied it frame by frame and built mine from scratch. Go watch the original, it is the better film: "Dwayne Johnson - Back Against The Wall (Collage Animation)"    • Dwayne Johnson - Back Against The Wall (Co...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Shot, cut and scored by me. The collage sequences are built from public-domain cut-outs. #aifilmmaking #aivideo #aistorytelling