Session Slides

Welcome back. Last week you made images. Today you make them move. In 30 minutes you are going to use what you already know - the 5-element image framework - and take it one step further into video. By the end, you will have created your first AI video clip using Google Flow. Everything builds on what you already built.

This is a Forrester Research stat and it sounds crazy but think about it. You can spend 20 minutes writing a status update or you can make a 60-second clip that your manager actually watches. It does not matter what your job is - if you are in marketing, in sales, in ops, on an exec team - video is the most powerful format you have. And until recently it was expensive and slow. That changes today.

I want to show you something quick. When I typed a basic prompt - just "create an AI buddy eating pizza" - I got something generic. When I applied the VISION framework to the same character, using a reference image as the anchor, the video was almost perfect. Same model. Same character. Totally different result. The difference is not the tool. The difference is the structure of the prompt. That is what we are going to learn right now.

This is your video direction framework. V is your visual anchor - the reference image that locks in your character, your set, your brand. I is intention - why does this scene exist? Is it an announcement, a demo, a vibe moment? S is the sequence - list out the beats, the micro-actions that happen step by step in the clip. I is immersion - the sensory layer, lighting, time of day, texture, the pace of cuts. O is the orbit - how the camera moves, whether it dollies in, pans, tilts, does a rack focus. N is the narrative - the one-sentence arc, what changes from the opening frame to the closing frame. This is film school 101 in 90 seconds. Let's use it.

Everybody does this right now. Open Google Labs, ChatGPT, or any image tool you like. Use the 5-element framework from last week: subject, style, setting, composition, details. Your subject is an office space - but make it yours. A beach view, a rooftop, a mountain cabin. You have 5 minutes. If you did not make it to last week's session, there is a pre-made prompt in the exercise link in the chat - just modify a couple of details and run it. This image is going to become the first frame of your video.

Okay, everyone open Flow - it is lab.google.com/flow. It is free up to a point, you just need a Google account. When you create a new project, choose Frames to Video - not text to video. You get two boxes. Upload your workspace image in the first box. Then paste in a VISION prompt. There is a pre-written one in the chat if you want a starting point - just add a line that says "use the reference image in the first frame as the anchor." Set it to generate two variations so you can compare. Then hit run. It takes about 30 seconds. We will look at what you got in a few minutes.

Look at what you made. A few weeks ago that would have taken a production team and a budget. You did it in 10 minutes. Now here is what to notice. The reference image kept your workspace looking exactly like your workspace across the whole clip - no drift. The beats in your prompt gave the video a story arc - something actually happened. And if you put camera language in the orbit section, the video moved the way you told it to. You just acted as the director. That is a new skill. Let us talk about what it means.

Here is your challenge for this week. Pick a real work scenario - a product launch, a team announcement, a training clip, a piece of internal communication. Build a reference image. Write a VISION prompt. Generate the clip in Flow. Then submit your VISION prompt and a description of the video to your AI Buddy in AIO Labs. Your AI Buddy will evaluate your prompt structure - how well each element of VISION is used - and give you feedback. This is worth one credit toward your Generative AI Essentials certification.

One framework. One reference image. One 30-minute session. And you can now make video that used to cost hundreds of dollars and days of back-and-forth with a production team. The leaders who figure this out first are going to have a massive advantage in how they communicate - to their teams, to their customers, to the room. That is what we are building toward. See you at the next session.