AI Film Production: Make Features Under $10

3x Telly Award-winning Executive Producer Jeff Rivera just demonstrated something that would have seemed impossible a few years ago: he created a feature film-quality visual sequence entirely from his laptop, in under an hour, for less than $10. And he used AI tools that anyone in the music and entertainment industry can access right now.

Here’s the full AI production stack Rivera used:

1. Midjourney — to create his characters visually
2. Nano Banana — to create character sheets with close-up and full shots of each character, with their names underneath
3. Gemini — to break down his screenplay into 15-second chunks compatible with Kling 3.0
4. Kling 3.0 — to generate the actual video moments from the screenplay and character sheet
5. Adobe Premiere Pro — to edit the downloaded clips together
6. Suno — to create a short AI-generated musical score

The result is a short cinematic sequence from the opening of Rivera’s novel Sing to Me, rendered in feature film style. Rivera positioned the project under his #GreenlightYourself and #BypassHollywood hashtags, making the case that any creator with a story to tell no longer needs a studio budget to visualize it.

For the music and radio industry, the implications are significant. Producers and artists who want to create compelling visual content for music videos, promotional content, or pitches to music supervisors can now do so at a fraction of the traditional cost. AI tools like Suno are already in this stack, which means music and visuals can be produced together, cheaply and quickly.

This is the new creative reality. The question for industry professionals isn’t whether to engage with these tools — it’s whether you can afford not to.