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.
A scene groups the action that happens in one place before the story moves elsewhere. Breaking a script into scenes is the first structural step of pre-production because each scene shares a location, lighting, and set.
In Let There Be, scenes are detected automatically when you run Ingest: the system reads your scenario, identifies where the location changes, and groups the lines into scenes. Each scene carries the set it takes place in and the beats that occur within it.
Related terms
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.
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.