Let’s Make a Music Video ~ Step 5

Publish the work to an elite audience for feedback.

I am about ten hours in on this project, not counting a year’s worth of collaboration with ChatGPT — a deep well without which I could not have made this.

Chatty knows the book so well, all I had to do was select illustrations. The storyboard is AI, all the way.

Storyboard v1 — 3:07, vertical 9:16

The timestamps are editorial targets, not frame-accurate musical cuts yet. In Resolve, I would slide the cuts a few frames either way to land on drums, keyboard accents, and phrase changes.

Time	Source file	Treatment in 9:16	Purpose
0:00–0:04	Seedance 2.mp4	Full motion; center waterfall and underside of island	Immediate WTF hook. Don’t begin like an advertisement.
0:04–0:08	7a.png	Slow push toward Anye + Maroli + young man	Establish what kind of universe this is
0:08–0:12	2a(3).png	Push from joined hands toward Carmen/Brandon faces	First romantic statement
0:12–0:16	Floating_island_mansion_drifts_o…_202608301805.mp4	Motion; crop around estate	Wonder / scale
0:16–0:20	17(2).png	Pan left-to-right: RZ craft → Carmen/Brandon	Romance embedded in SF
0:20–0:24	9(6).png	Push toward young couple; let “Gravity is ON” remain visible initially	Playfulness
0:24–0:28	kling_20260301_Image_to_Video_The_furry__5394_0.mp4	Use strongest 4 sec	Alien/human affection; charmingly strange
0:28–0:31	106.png	Fast push toward girl’s expression/dog	Comic beat
0:31–0:35	20(2).png	Pan aircraft ramp → arrivals → alien greeter	Family/worldbuilding
0:35–0:39	f8614edd40c5.mp4 around 33.7–37.7	Use walking exterior material	First substantial live-motion lift
0:39–0:44	46(3).png	Pan young couple → Carmen/Brandon	Generational match: two romances, one world
0:44–0:49	120.png	Slow push toward ring and faces	Romantic escalation
0:49–0:53	140(20260830-020614).png	Start slightly wider; push into kiss	First payoff
0:53–0:57	60(2).png	Gentle upward push from hand/tie to faces	Domestic intimacy
0:57–1:01	57(3).png	Very slow vertical drift; estate centered	Reset to spectacle
1:01–1:05	Minimax 1.mp4	Motion aerial; crop waterfall/estate	World opens again
1:05–1:09	Minimax 3.mp4	Cave-water motion	Cool visual change of register
1:09–1:13	65(1).png	Pan men → Maroli across pool	Whimsy / friendship
1:13–1:17	48(2).png	Pan human conversation → Maroli	Strange domestic normality
1:17–1:21	f8614edd40c5.mp4 around 15.0–17.7	Maroli close material	Give the title creature some screen time
1:21–1:25	190c.png	Start on enormous island; drift toward people/dogs	Scale becomes ordinary life
1:25–1:29	kling_20260627_Image_to_Video_Female_act_2702_0.mp4	Best 4 sec of beach action	Replace stillness with real subject motion
1:29–1:32	49.jpg	Quick push; retain fishermen atop craft	Absurd/fun SF punctuation
1:32–1:36	180.png	Center dog, pan between alien couple	Road-movie energy
1:36–1:40	185(20260830-020617).png	Slow push toward couple + dog	Warm landing before tonal shift
1:40–1:44	63(1).png	Push Carmen → reframe toward micro-nova display	The stakes arrive.
1:44–1:48	36.png	Push through pilot toward tactical screens	Competence / action
1:48–1:52	10(2).png	Pan couple → black vehicle	Technology enters the foreground
1:52–1:56	f8614edd40c5.mp4 around 0–4.7	Flying vehicle material	Actual propulsion
1:56–2:00	13.png	Slow push toward night ship beneath Milky Way	Brief majestic pause
2:00–2:05	Ruksa Zila Flythrough.mp4 around 0–5	Island approach	Begin the big-world run
2:05–2:10	Ruksa Zila Flythrough.mp4 around 8–13	Waterfall / geological detail	Continue movement, change scale
2:10–2:15	Ruksa Zila Flythrough.mp4 around 27–32	Pool/grotto area	People inside the impossible environment
2:15–2:20	Ruksa Zila Flythrough.mp4 around 33–38	Night promenade	Move toward romance again
2:20–2:24	61a(20260830-022311).jpg	Push on older woman adjusting young man’s tie; keep military woman in frame	Family / blessing / continuity
2:24–2:28	172.png	Very restrained push	Older-generation affection
2:28–2:32	28(3).png	Gentle push on couple at dinner	Ordinary happiness
2:32–2:36	3(3).png	Vertical crop containing all three if possible; slight push	Social charm / alien normalization
2:36–2:40	2a(3).png	Return to Christmas dance, tighter crop than first use	Visual refrain
2:40–2:44	66.png	Slow push; almost no movement needed	Carmen/Brandon payoff
2:44–2:48	46(3).png	Reverse-direction pan from Carmen/Brandon → young couple	Complete the generational match
2:48–2:52	20(2).png	Different crop: dog/child/family rather than arrival	Life beyond the romances
2:52–2:56	Floating_island_mansion_drifts_o…_202608301805.mp4	Different section/crop from first use	Final spectacle build
2:56–3:00	8(4).png or Minimax 1.mp4	Grand centered island, slow pull back	The whole impossible world
3:00–3:07	Hailuo_Video_443955602984333320.mp4 or 384212807443660804.mp4	Portrait source fits 9:16 naturally; freeze last clean frame if necessary	Book/brand end card