Testing Veo 3 for Filmmaking
Every filmmaker, when they start pulling a project together, needs a few essentials: a polished script, a teaser trailer, and eventually a pitch deck. With Milo, the script is almost, in place. The next step will be shaping the pitch deck, but for now, I want to share the teaser I created using Veo 3.
Veo 3 is Google’s new text-to-video AI tool. You feed it a written prompt, and it generates short video clips in response. Think of it as a sketchbook for moving images.
Here’s what I learned in the process:
It takes patience. A lot of it. For every shot that made it into the teaser, I had to go through close to a dozen versions before one felt right. Veo 3 isn’t a magic button. It’s rewriting, refining, and iterating until something finally clicks.
Where it helps is in sketching mood and possibility. I could test out lenses, lighting, and camera moves to get a sense of how Milo might breathe onscreen. But when it came to precision, keeping a character consistent or drawing out a very specific emotional beat, the tool struggled.
Here’s a concept teaser for my film Milo --
Roberto
P.S. My indie feature that I wrote and directed is now streaming on Amazon. It helps me tremendously if you can review/rate it.
Watch my film The Wild Dreamers → bit.ly/4lhwCD3
