Adagio for Ava

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 Adagio for Ava 4:37

This story was written with Meta AI with Llama 4. It evolved from an initial horror genre idea to what it is now. It's gone through many convolutions, the last major change due to the music generated by Meta/musicgen. I was able to cut and paste several runs into the final long progression. Changing the mood of the entire film, I think. 

The challenge here was prompting. Many elements were needed that were very specific and keeping things consistent was difficult and impossible. The interaction with the vid screen scene and the violin performance. A lot of wasted images and video from failed promptings. 

I did not make a character for this film. I utilized mostly cut and paste layers using Microsoft's Paint and the open source photoeditor GIMP.

My dependence on editing is what made it all work.

 


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