u/Icy-Block-1953

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Made my first AI story video but I’m struggling to make it feel emotionally cinematic looking for feedback and advice

Hi everyone! I recently made an AI video based on the “donkey and the salt” story, but I’m honestly not very satisfied with the final result because I was aiming for a much more emotional and cinematic feeling. I wanted the story to feel deeper emotionally, especially showing the donkey’s inner thoughts and frustration, but a lot of the scenes didn’t come out the way I imagined 😄 Some of the issues I ran into: the bridge looked unfinished/half-built in some shots when the donkey slipped into the water, it looked less like an accident and more like the donkey intentionally jumped in the expressions didn’t feel emotional enough the “mind voice” didn’t really sound like inner thoughts voice consistency and lip sync felt off between scenes sometimes the emotional tone didn’t match the visuals properly For my workflow: I used ChatGPT for prompting Grok Imagine for video generation Grok for audio/dialogue as well Canva for editing I’m still very new to AI storytelling and cinematic editing, so I’d genuinely appreciate feedback or advice on: improving emotional expressions making actions feel more natural creating better inner-thought voice effects cinematic pacing and atmosphere keeping voice consistency between scenes If anyone has experience with Grok Imagine or emotional AI storytelling workflows, I’d really love to learn from your tips 😄

u/Icy-Block-1953 — 5 days ago
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Hi everyone! I’m very new to AI storytelling and filmmaking, but I have an original emotional wildlife story idea that I really want to turn into a cinematic short film. The story is about a mother deer protecting her cub from a wolf, but the ending reveals the wolf is also trying to feed and protect her own cubs. I want the audience to feel sympathy for both sides instead of seeing a simple hero and villain story. I’m trying to make it feel like a real emotional animated movie experience rather than just random AI-generated scenes. I especially want help understanding: emotional pacing cinematic scene composition background music choices atmosphere and lighting how to create stronger emotional expressions Right now I mainly have access to Grok and Canva, so I’m trying to learn how to use them creatively for storytelling. If anyone has advice, tutorials, workflow tips, music suggestions, or beginner mistakes to avoid, I’d genuinely appreciate the help.

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u/Icy-Block-1953 — 5 days ago