I have a special live presentation at 8 am Mountain time for Course Creators, Filmmakers, Book writers, and research fiends. This starts a heavy week of building stories filled with games, tools, and two presentations. I hope you'll join me in my group today in one hour-or see the replay. It'll be a good one. www.intensemedia.com/lab. I'll also be speaking for the first time in another community on Thursday in "Plan Your Tech" which is Paulo Costa's Group. I will be talking about "The Art of Story" and how to get that idea in your head down into a structure that's worth building.

Membership is up to over 80 members engagement is at 80%, #165 in Hobbies! Even active members is up! new record in activities 284! These are all-time highs. Here’s what I learned: 1. It’s not about building out your curriculum first. Most people won’t even look at it anyway. Build community first! Make your community a fun place to be. “ What’s Nick doing today?” 2. Show up everyday. Offer help, encourage others, offer rewards for engagement such as posting in the group at level 3 , DM in level 3. Why? It encourages engagement! And most people can level up in one conversation! 3. Participate in other groups not just your niche. Do both! People will radiate towards someone who is authentic, offers encouragement, and shows up! 4. Admit that you don’t have all the answers, be humble but stand your ground! Have principles! 5. Participate in live calls and when given the chance! Talk not about yourself but how you can help the group individually or as a whole. Call people out in the live by name and tell them how you can help them do something that will make their lives easier! 6. Have fun, be nutty, be vulnerable, show your humanity, be authentic! You will shine and people will radiate towards you! 7. I’ve also implemented a Buddy System where I encourage higher levels to reach out to level one members! And it’s working! There are so many valuable “lurkers” who deserve a voice! And instead of me reaching out, my members are! 8. I also run fun contests, challenges, and participatory sing alongs! That’s coming! Shh! What are some unique methods you are using to boost your totals?

In VEO or Nano Banana, stop treating B‑roll like polite filler. Use it as the rebel child of your narrative. If your A‑roll insists everything is fine, cut to B‑roll that quietly undermines it—a flickering exit sign, a storm rolling in, a kid staring like they know the ending already. When your supplementary footage contradicts the official story, your film gains tension, wit, and that old‑school cinematic honesty modern creators forget to use. 🎬 Daily AI Filmmaking Tip — “Design One Shot That Acts Like It Knows More Than the Script.” Whether you're using VEO, Nano Banana, or a traditional camera, craft a single shot in each project that feels suspiciously aware of the bigger story. Maybe it lingers on an object no one has mentioned yet, or it frames a character in a way that hints at a future betrayal. Your audience won’t know why they feel unsettled—but they’ll lean in.That’s how you turn simple scenes into prophecy and keep your storytelling one step ahead of everyone in the room.

“I shall revel as my revelers level, rebel, reveal, believe, achieve, conceive, retrieve, perceive, reprieve, and—good grief—these words won’t stop bleeding out of my brain like a rhyming stampede galloping through a thesaurus, dragging along every stray syllable that dares to rhyme or vaguely rhyme as if they’ve all decided to form a conga line of linguistic chaos, leveling and reveling and rebelling so enthusiastically!

at AI STORYTELLERS, We believe in the The Core Concept (Script/Post): We've developed "The Director's Film Cohort" It's a safe place to create. Yesterday, you planted the seed (The DNA). Today, we grow the tree. Most people fail at writing scripts because they stare at a blank page. "The Story First Blueprint" in AI STORYTELLERS uses a modular approach. We don't write "scenes"; we build "beats." Every great short film follows a simple rhythm. We are going to use the 4-Beat Arc: - The Setup: The status quo (The world as it is). - The Inciting Incident: The disruption (Something changes). - The Conflict: The struggle (The character tries to fix it). - The Resolution: The new reality (Success or failure). If you are using ChatGPT or Claude, do NOT ask it to "Write me a script." Instead, feed it your DNA from the rules we learned in our paid group and ask it to "Outline these 4 beats." Join us in AI STORYTELLERS. I have four members in my queue to join. I open those people on Monday. Will you be in the queue? We only have 6 more spots open at $12/year. (12 Completed projects-1 year) or Come in at $25/month and pick which month you want. Don't be left behind!