Film Forge

Project name Style Bible

Visual style prompt Writer's Room production (optional — the screenplay becomes the story)

Pick a production from the Writer's Room and its screenplay fills the story field (casting). The narration reads the client's manuscript — preview it below before you spend.

Director's Prompt — how the film should look and feel ("POV, shaky handheld, cold fog"). The forge applies it to every shot. With complete audio aboard, no manuscript is mandatory — scenes rise from the project automatically. No audio? This box is your story / narration script.

See who speaks (auto-cast from your vault) and every sound moment in your story — before any credits burn. Dialogue lines use the format ACTOR: "line".

Narration audio (the clock — video conforms to this) Sound effects library (optional — your own SFX)

Upload your own sound effects. Filenames matching story moments (rain, thunder, fire, forest, wind, birds…) are placed AT those moments in the film; the rest become a soft ambience bed underneath.

Reference images (environments, logos, props)

Select images from any folder. They accumulate across selections — add as many as you need. Click a thumbnail to remove it.

Pick actors from your studio vault — their locked faces are cast automatically. You can still upload entity/prop images below.

CHARACTERS — upload each character's face/reference (REQUIRED for story casting)

Upload one or more images per character. Name each file starting with the character's name, e.g. K.png, K-angry.png, MoD CEO.png. The name before the dash becomes the character's casting name — the forge will lock that face to every scene the character appears in.

Render mode Render tier

Draft renders the whole film cheap (a 2-hour feature ≈ $168). Hero uses the frontier lane. Never mix: draft first, always.

Budget cap (USD) — the Spend Governor stops paid renders past this; the film still finishes

GATE 2 (Six Gates law, Oct 9 2026): the default cap is now $10, not $200. Hard ceiling for this render — slots past it become placeholders. Raise it deliberately, per render.

Narrator voice — the master narrator is Edward; the choice is always yours (Robin's law, Oct 9 2026)

Pre-seated on Edward. Choose any voice from your ElevenLabs library — per render, any time.

Resume from prior render (optional) — per-render folder with surviving clips, e.g. /opt/filmforge/output/renders/Little_Tree_... — must belong to THIS project (manifest-checked), only missing shots render

Leave empty for a fresh render. Fill in to resume: clips named scene_01_atlas.mp4 etc. are matched to this render's slots by ID and reused as-is.

Include dragon shield watermark (lower-right corner)

Film Forge

Cast Report

Sound Moments

Status

Done