How it works
A film is scenes. A scene is cuts. A cut is layers.
Students sign into a cohort, join a project with the roles they want, and work the film from brief to board to takes. Nothing is generated until the cut has its notes: what it's for, what it must match, how the camera moves. That's the e-conte discipline, and it's the whole point.
The layers of a cut
The location plate. Generated once, reused across every cut in the scene, so the room stays the same room.
The consent-bearing pass. Anyone real in it has a signed release; the plate frame is the reference.
The take you compare and choose. Three routes, three results, one decision, one tick.
The line from the e-conte notes, voiced. Real voices need a voice release; under-18s never clone.
Foley and ambience per cut: rain on the roof, a door, footsteps.
Scored to the locked cut at the timeline stage, the last layer, not the first.
Three lanes, one film
Quick, cheap tests. Ten takes to find the shot. Previz, in film terms.
References, seeds, settings. Reproducible, so a good result can be made again.
Release quality for the cut you keep. Same model family as explore where possible, so the look carries.
Routes and tokens
A route is one model on one provider, approved by the school and rated on the tile: integrity, energy disclosure, what it's good and bad at. Students pick the route and see the cost before they commit. The cost is in tokens: the school decides the rate; students and instructors never see money. Tokens are reserved when a job starts and returned if it fails or is refused.
The look of the film is set once per project by the crew, from the school's list, and leads every picture prompt. Style is a decision, not a surprise.
The bible and the gate
Characters, locations, props, styles and voices live in the project bible. A cut says which entries it uses; anything depicting a real person needs a valid release for the lane, or the cut stays locked. Every prompt is checked against the school's content tier before a model sees it.
When a take lands, its receipt records the model version, the route, the prompt, the consent basis, the gate's verdict, the cost, and the energy disclosure tier. Kill a take and it's gone from the bin, not from the record. Restore it any time.
Who does what
- Students choose everything about the film: roles, look, routes, takes. The platform teaches by showing cost and rating, not by locking doors.
- Instructors see every person in the cohort, their project and roles, every job and what it cost, and the schedule of briefs.
- The school sets the model allowlist, the content tier, the token rate and the list of looks.