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.
A shot is the basic building block of visual storytelling: one framing of one moment. Planning shots — wide, close-up, over-the-shoulder, and so on — is how a director decides how the audience sees each beat.
In Let There Be, each beat becomes a shot. The platform generates a 3×3 grid of nine cinematic frames for the beat in a single pass, so you choose the framing instead of describing it, then add motion to turn the chosen frame into 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.
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.
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.