Speaker 1: My name is Knives Monroe. I've been a filmmaker for almost 20 years. I'm based out of Austin, Texas. And today on this video, we're going to get into how to co-write a screenplay using ChatGPT and, more specifically, using these prompts. If you stay till prompt number three, you will see the secret sauce that is the massive unlock that shows you how to write a screenplay using ChatGPT. This prompt is the secret. It's the nucleus of the whole idea. Check it out. Without any further ado, let's get into it. So this was a video that was basically begged for me to make based on my last video that you can find right here. Link is also in the description. And people said, wow, you wrote a screenplay with ChatGPT. That's amazing. But what were the prompts? How did you do it? Did it open up Final Draft and write the screenplay for you? Short answer, no. What it is, it's a collaborator. And so it feeds off of ideas and it feeds off of prompts. So these are the prompts that I use to come up with a mock script that I'm not going to make. I'm not going to show you the script that I wrote with the AI specifically because I do plan on producing that in the future. And it's extremely detailed. So the first prompt, first thing that I asked the AI was, hello, I want you to act as if you are my screenwriting partner. I want to write a romantic comedy in the style of Harold and Maude, which is a great film. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Write me a completely original logline of a romantic comedy starring two female characters. So off the bat, I gave it very basic, vague and general information, but I gave it a logline that I was looking for the genre and two female characters. So that's what it has to go off of. Lo and behold, it comes with two rival pastry chefs, one a traditionalist and the other a rebel, are forced to work together to save their grandmother's bakery. But as they spend more time together, they discover their differences might not just be or might just be the ingredients that they need for a recipe for love. Recipe for love. Wow. AI has come such a long way. So that was an interesting logline. Now you can tweak that using different prompts and say, hey, write me another prompt instead of their grandmother. Make it one of the main characters' stepmothers, right? Because if these are our two romantic leads, they both can't have the same grandma, right? So right off the bat, you would want to fix something like that. It's a collaboration, but I think the structure works in and of itself. So I also gave it, come up with a list of two female leads that are taken from previous romantic comedies of the past. It came up with Kate, Julia, Annie, Holly, Rachel, Sally, Emma, Meg, Amanda, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mia, Natalie. I can also say, give me names of women of color. Give me more diverse names. Give me the last names of characters from romantic comedies as well. And this one is up to you to use your creativity and figure out the names that you want to use. I've also used in the past, give me 20 names of Disney princesses, right? And so you'll see Anna and what's that other girl from Frozen? And you'll see Ariel and Aurora and different names like that. So you can feed it different genres, feed it different contexts, and it'll give you a name as well. Now this right here is the secret sauce. Using the Dan Harmon story circle, write me eight beats of drama that tell the story from beginning to end. And it does it. This is the part that writes the screenplay for you. This is the massive unlock. It gives you a beginning, middle, and end. It gives you a first act, second act, third act, and even takes liberties and puts characters in situations that maybe they wouldn't otherwise have been. And it creates a dramatic story structure that you can go on later and then actually fill in the gaps and write the screenplay with. This is the hard part of writing a story. It's called breaking a story. If you're able to get this part over, if you're able to do this in the first place, then you've actually succeeded and you've done the hard part. Congratulations. You can go to sleep guilt-free today. I asked it to write me an extremely detailed treatment for the movie. It even comes up with the title of the picture, which is titled Sugar and Spice. And it comes up with a tremendous treatment that you can then use to shop around, then use to tweak. Secondly, this is one of the most important things because this treatment you can use for a logline, this treatment you can use for a synopsis, this treatment you can go on and start figuring out what kind of motivations would a character like this need. You can then start figuring out the locations that you're going to build off of. I love the treatment and it's really a huge unlock. So I bet you didn't even know that you can do that on ChatGPT, didn't you? So one of the last prompts that I have here is write me a shot list for this treatment ready for filming. Now, OpenAI, ChatGPT will say, I apologize as a text based AI, I'm not able to create visual content such as a shot list. However, I can provide a list of suggested scenes and shots that you can consider, including in your shot list for the treatment of Sugar and Spice, which is exactly what I asked for. Opening shot, closeups. Now you might say, why would I need that? That's not interesting to me. Some of you might not be writer directors, but those of you that are writer directors, this is interesting to you because I write my scripts with some stage directions in mind, like drone of this particular location opening shot. There's an aerial shot of the bakery's busy kitchen showing Emma and Holly working together in harmony. That's a great idea. That's something that I probably wouldn't have thought of on the day, but it's pretty cool to have a shot list of that. So yeah, those are my prompts. That's what I came up with really on the fly. This took me less than three minutes to come up with. What are some prompts that you would add? What can you do to make this a more engaging, more interesting story structure and dynamic? Please let me know in the comments below. If you've made it this far, I'd appreciate that. Congratulations, you've done the hard part for creating a screenplay. The rest is opening up Final Draft or Celtics or whatever sort of screenwriting platform that you use to bring a screenplay to life and start writing. This is an amazing advancement when it comes to a collaborator. For someone who's an army of one, just like me, I really appreciate this software and this technology. Just wait until it's integrated with Google or Bing or Siri, and you can just pick up your phone and start prompting away. It's going to be amazing. It's just going to change our lives dramatically. The question is, do we give credit to chat GPT when it comes to writing? That's going to be the ethical dilemma. That's neither here or there for me to say, but without any further ado, I love you guys. Keep a force field around your heart. Like, comment, and subscribe. Share this video, and let's make the comments really, really engaging down below. I'd appreciate that. Thanks so much for watching. We'll see you guys on the next one. Take it easy.