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Short Movie

A short film, with people who look like the people.

Tell the story. The director breaks it into acts and shots, keeps your cast recognisable in every frame, writes the title cards, and cuts it to music.

From $69 · Professional from $149

Ini Enak Banget — a short film3:39
What you send

What we need.

The story

A paragraph is plenty. Who, where, what happens, how it ends.

Your cast

Three photos each. They stay the same person in every shot.

A feeling

Cinematic, documentary, retro, noir — or leave it to the director.

What comes back

What comes back.

A structure, not a montage

Acts with a beginning, a turn and an end, on paper before you pay.

Consistent faces

The same people across every location and time of day.

Narration, if it needs it

A chosen voice reading lines the director wrote for the film.

Subtitles

Burnt in for $4.99.

What it would have cost

Ini Enak Banget — a short film

Real-life production$2,017,400
12second Studio$93.99
99.995% less

One man, nine countries, the summit of Everest and a plastic stool in Medan. Shot for real it needs a travelling crew, monument permits and a summit unit — the director costed it at $2,017,400. Made here, Standard finish: $93.99.

Prices

What a short film costs.

ExampleLengthStandardProfessionalIs this Hollywood?
A 4-minute short film2 to 4 minutes$69$149$239

No revisions included in these figures; you choose 0 to 3 on the quote. Full price list.

Questions

About short films.

How long can a short film be?
Up to about ten minutes. Longer films are quoted by the band.
Can I make a series?
Yes — each episode is its own film, and the cast carries across them.
Do you write the story for me?
The director writes the film from your paragraph, and asks the questions that change it. The story is yours.
What if I hate a scene?
Say so in a revision. Only the shots your notes touch get reworked.
Start

Tell us the film. The storyboard is free.

You will get a director’s questions, a full storyboard as a page and a PDF, and three fixed quotes. Nothing is made and nothing is charged until you choose one.

Start a filmfree to storyboard