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.
Where a scene defines the where, a beat defines the what — a single action or moment that moves the story forward. Dividing a scene into beats turns a block of prose into a sequence of plannable shots.
In Let There Be, beats are derived from your scenario during Ingest. Each beat knows which characters and set appear in it, and becomes a shot: you generate cinematic frames for the beat, choose the angle, and later add motion to produce video.
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.
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.
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.