A birthday surprise video: the astronaut gift

Birthday, anniversary, farewell, new job: twelve personal AI video gifts you can make in an evening, with the prompt and the consent step for each.

How this video was made

Generated in Actoria from a three-paragraph script: each paragraph became a five-second scene, the synthetic actors were created once and kept their faces in every shot, and the scenes were stitched into one film.

Scenes

1. 0s Mia opens a laptop on a table decorated with balloons and a birthday cake, and her face lights up as a video starts playing. Medium shot, slow push-in.
2. 5s Leo floats in a white spacesuit inside a space station, waves at the camera and gives a thumbs up. Medium shot, slow drift.
3. 10s Mia laughs with a hand over her mouth, then turns the laptop toward Leo sitting next to her at the table; he bursts out laughing. Static two-shot.