AI Pre-Production
AI pre-production is the use of AI to handle the planning stages of filmmaking — developing the idea, writing the scenario, structuring it into scenes and beats, designing characters and locations, and generating cinematic shots — before any final video is produced.
Pre-production is everything that happens before final footage exists: scriptwriting, breaking the story into scenes, designing characters and sets, and planning the shots. Traditionally it is labor-intensive work spread across specialists and tools.
AI pre-production brings this into one workspace. Instead of generating finished video first, it front-loads the planning: an AI develops your idea, you write the scenario, and the system structures it into scenes and beats, detects the characters and sets, and generates cinematic shots you review and refine.
In Let There Be, this is the core workflow — Ideate, Script, Ingest (auto-structuring into scenes and beats), Design, and Visualize — so that the video you produce afterward is consistent and intentional rather than a series of disconnected clips.
Related terms
Scene
A scene is a unit of a story that takes place in a single location and continuous time. In AI pre-production, scenes are the top-level structure a scenario is divided into, each containing one or more beats.
Beat
A beat is a single moment of action within a scene — one distinct thing that happens. In AI pre-production, each beat becomes a shot that can be visualized as an image and turned into video.
Shot
A shot is a single continuous view from one camera setup — defined by its framing, angle, and movement. In AI pre-production, a shot is generated for each beat to visualize how that moment is filmed.