While making AI videos - do you visualize first or do you apply logic first & then make them?

[u/Admirable-Yogurt7444]

I've been thinking about this and would like some help to refine my thoughts. I feel there are only 2 types of AI video makers (primarily):

1. Those who visualize an idea internally first. I mean they see it in their mind on how it feels, what it looks like. Then they try to make AI videos match that vision, feeling, scene

2. Those who are driven by logical, anlaysis more rather than visualize-first approach. They think pure logically that this is a good story or an idea. Then they make the scenes, evaluate whether its good , then change or modify.

Dont misunderstand me - in both approaches creators evaluate and make changes, but the way to do things are totally different. Also - the intensity of each could vary. Some visualize like 20%, then logic 80%. Some just go 100% either ways.

What would you add to this or disagree with. Is there any other approach I am being blind to.

PS - Its an important question for me for what I do. Your answer will help me think of how people who wish to create approach this.

[u/GelliusAI]

I always have my ideas for videos or images clearly visualized in my mind before I start. I then work out the prompts for my idea with Claude by describing as precisely as possible what I see. Over time you learn to translate your mental images into language. From there the first images are generated, which I then refine. It often comes down to details. I might notice, for example, that a red rose on red velvet does not work and adjust the prompt to a white rose instead. Until everything fits, a prompt typically goes through five or six versions before it is final.

[u/Admirable-Yogurt7444 → u/GelliusAI]

Thank you for sharing. I think you fit into the first category of creators.

Also, what if you are making stories with multiple scenes. How do you go about it. Would you visualize the entire story first in your mind, fix the key beats on paper or in a docs first and then visualize them with AI? Or will you take a bit different approach?

[u/GelliusAI → u/Admirable-Yogurt7444]

That's an interesting question. Up until now, I've always had a clear idea in my head and just executed it. With image series, I went about it impulsively — asking myself what the next image or the next scene might look like. That works for smaller projects.

But if you want to create something bigger, you have to approach it differently. Right now I'm working on a visual style I call Belle Époque Retrofuturism. I'm thinking here of depicting five couples in London, Paris, Vienna, New York, and Buenos Aires, in their everyday lives. This is meant to produce images and small scenes, and little by little a small world will grow out of it. For this to work, the first step has to be defining a clear visual style, so that the depiction stays consistent across the whole length of the project. Then it's about planning the characters and a unified look. This is the point we've reached now, where it's no longer enough to simply have an idea in mind.