Project: Algo Teaser
Role: Director / Producer / Editor
Client: Algorithmica
Timeline: 3 days
Category: AI
Client: Algorithmica
Timeline: 3 days
Category: AI
One script. Zero locations. Three days.
Algorithmica is a coding course Foxford had just acquired. Mid-integration means exactly what it sounds like: new client, new brand guidelines, new everyone — communicating like an external partner even though the entity was technically internal.
The brief came in on shoot day. The script that came with it didn't work. We rewrote it on the spot, pitched it back, and the client approved the new direction immediately.
Then came the real problem: there was no time left to shoot it. No locations booked. No crew available. No room to improvise on set. The speakers attached to the project had almost no availability either.
The brief came in on shoot day. The script that came with it didn't work. We rewrote it on the spot, pitched it back, and the client approved the new direction immediately.
Then came the real problem: there was no time left to shoot it. No locations booked. No crew available. No room to improvise on set. The speakers attached to the project had almost no availability either.
task
The constraint: keep the new script and story exactly as approved. Find another way to make it real.
The brief said "one location."
Day 1. First prompts in Nano Banana 2
Testing if the rewritten script could even hold up visually before committing to it
Day 1. First prompts in Nano Banana 2
Testing if the rewritten script could even hold up visually before committing to it
We decided the teaser would be built entirely with AI but we safe the same script, same story beats, zero changes to what the client had already signed off on. The only thing changing was the production method, not the creative.
That meant working across multiple "layers of reality" at once. We started with photoreal generation to ground the characters and environments, then pushed into a more digital, stylized register where we could experiment with rendering, motion, and tone without breaking continuity. Each layer had to read as intentional — a deliberate shift in visual register, not a seam where the AI showed its limits.
The stack:
The team's first reaction was skepticism: nobody on the crew had shipped a fully AI-generated deliverable for a real client before. That changed once we remembered what the underlying course was actually about: Algorithmica teaches kids to code, often touching AI concepts directly. A fully AI-made teaser wasn't a workaround dressed up as a concept. It was on-brand.
That meant working across multiple "layers of reality" at once. We started with photoreal generation to ground the characters and environments, then pushed into a more digital, stylized register where we could experiment with rendering, motion, and tone without breaking continuity. Each layer had to read as intentional — a deliberate shift in visual register, not a seam where the AI showed its limits.
The stack:
- Nano Banana 2 — base generation and character consistency
- Seedance — motion and scene transitions
- Kling 3.0 — secondary shots and detail work
- ElevenLabs — voice
- Epidemic Sound Studio — music and sound design
The team's first reaction was skepticism: nobody on the crew had shipped a fully AI-generated deliverable for a real client before. That changed once we remembered what the underlying course was actually about: Algorithmica teaches kids to code, often touching AI concepts directly. A fully AI-made teaser wasn't a workaround dressed up as a concept. It was on-brand.
solution
Not every generation made the cut
We kept generating until the characters felt like they belonged in a coding course, not a generic AI showcase
We kept generating until the characters felt like they belonged in a coding course, not a generic AI showcase
Delivered in three days (one weekday, two weekend days) with the original script and story untouched.
Approved with zero revisions. Zero comments.
What started as a forced workaround became a different kind of product entirely: not a video that used AI as a tool, but a video that used AI as the production method, start to finish, while still hitting the deadline and budget a live shoot never would have allowed.
Approved with zero revisions. Zero comments.
What started as a forced workaround became a different kind of product entirely: not a video that used AI as a tool, but a video that used AI as the production method, start to finish, while still hitting the deadline and budget a live shoot never would have allowed.
result
And the team that doubted it shipped it anyway.
The same producers skeptical of AI-only production signed off on the final cut without hesitation — because the result didn't look like a compromise. It looked like the course it was advertising.
The same producers skeptical of AI-only production signed off on the final cut without hesitation — because the result didn't look like a compromise. It looked like the course it was advertising.
3 days start to delivery
0 locations needed
0 revisions requested by client
5 tools in the generation stack
0 locations needed
0 revisions requested by client
5 tools in the generation stack
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