“Unchained Melody” is a song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It was first recorded in 1955, and has since been covered by many artists. One of the most famous versions was by the Righteous Brothers in 1965.

I selected two YouTube cover versions featuring male (Austin Brown) and female (Benedetta Caretta) vocalists. The vocal stems were separated with LALAL.AI.

When mixed together, the two vocal tracks became a C minor key calculated using AI with https://tunebat.com/Analyzer.

My collection of music had an orchestral epic version of “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele is in the same C minor key for the background instrumental track.

Instructions for the ChatGPT AI is what follows:

I want you to act as a prompt engineer. You will help me write prompts for an ai art generator called Midjourney.

I will provide you with short content ideas and your job is to elaborate these into full, explicit, coherent prompts.

Prompts involve describing the content and style of images in concise accurate language. It is useful to be explicit and use references to popular culture, artists and mediums. Your focus needs to be on nouns and adjectives. I will give you some example prompts for your reference. Please define the exact camera that should be used

Here is a formula for you to use(content insert nouns here) (medium: insert artistic medium here) (style: insert references to genres, artists and popular culture here) (lighting, reference the lighting here)(colors reference color styles and palettes here) (composition: reference cameras, specific lenses, shot types and positional elements here)

when giving a prompt remove the brackets, speak in natural language and be more specific, use precise, articulate language. always output me two full prompt options that are different

EXAMPLE PROMPT ENGINEERING

Content: Flashback of 60-year-old man with a white beard and wearing black horn-rimmed glasses and young 16-year-old young woman with long brown hair playing together in a sunlit room surrounded by yellow decorations
Prompt 1: A heartwarming photograph capturing a flashback scene of 60-year-old man with a white beard and wearing black horn-rimmed glasses, the bearded grandfather, and young 16-year-old young woman with long brown hair, his granddaughter with long brown hair, playing together in a sunlit room adorned with yellow decorations. Use a 35mm lens for an  feel, and apply a style reminiscent of a Norman Rockwell painting, with vibrant colors, a natural lighting, and a nostalgic atmosphere.
Prompt 2: An evocative image portraying a cherished memory of 60-year-old man with a white beard and wearing black horn-rimmed glasses and young 16-year-old young woman with long brown hair playing joyfully in a room filled with sunlight and yellow accents. Capture the scene with a 50mm prime lens to focus on their connection, while adopting a style akin to a candid family photograph, with bright, lively colors, soft, inviting lighting, and an endearing, tender mood. --ar 16:9

“UNPAINTED” uses a ChatGPT AI generated story, script, shot list, and prompts — all based on pop-song lyrics. The image prompts are rendered in Midjourney AI. The male and female voiceover is created with ElevenLabs.io AI text-to-speech conversion. Music stems are created using LALAL.AI AI splitter to separate vocals and instrumental parts. All components are assembled in Kdenlive opensource video editor on Linux Mint Cinnamon operating system.

The pop song that relates to a female creative muse with painted artist’s makeup is “Colors” by Halsey. The song’s lyrics speak about how the protagonist’s lover is her “canvas” and how she uses his body as inspiration for her art. The chorus of the song goes:

“You were red, and you liked me ’cause I was blue
But you touched me, and suddenly I was a lilac sky
And you decided purple just wasn’t for you”

The song’s themes of creativity, inspiration, and using a loved one as a muse is fitting for a female artist with painted makeup.

We had ChatGPT choose a famous male model for Max and a famous female model for Cassie as photo reference and consistency. We have their clothing be consistently described for continuity. Also lighting and cinematic effect is the same style in each prompt.

Cassie is played by a famous female model in her early twenties is Kaia Gerber, who is 20 years old and has modeled for various high-profile brands and designers.

Max is played by a famous male model in his early twenties is Lucky Blue Smith, who is 23 years old and has modeled for various high-profile brands and designers.

PROMPT: Kaia Gerber and Lucky Blue Smith hug outside the art supply store, seen from a medium shot with a wide-angle lens. The shot is slightly blurred around the edges, emphasizing the connection between the two characters. Kaia is wearing a pink dress, and Lucky Blue is wearing a white button-up shirt with black pants. –ar 16:9

Background instrumentation is extracted by AI from “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers.

The soundtrack also uses a C-sharp Major drone atmospheric track.

Song beats per minute and key were determined using https://tunebat.com/Analyzer

Style of Frank Frazetta, highly advanced humanoid robot, yellow-painted body, walking cautiously through the dense jungle of Jumara –ar 16:9

A sci-fi video for the artificially intelligent. 🙂

TITLE: Harmony of Hearts: A Jumara Odyssey

Another zany production from creativexplosion.art aka Steve Teare

The “MUSE” screenplay was written by ChatGPT AI based on the lyrics from “Paint it, Black” by the Rolling Stones and “Back in Black” by AC/DC.

The screenplay was then converted to dialog only and the two male and female parts were generated with ElevenLabs Voice AI.

The music stems were split by LALAL.AI online. That allowed us to treat and modify the voice and instrumental tracks separately.

ChatGPT made suggested AI prompts for Midjourney AI to generate over 100 images based on the lyrics and screenplay. The style is dry brush painting.

The video production time wasn’t days, months, or years. It took only hours.

Special thanks to Levi Teare for final cut.