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Phase 4 · Create

Build Your Story

Three pathways. Same arc. Anchor the look, build one scene by hand, save the recipe, scale to the rest, polish and publish. Pick the medium that best serves your story angle.

Duration · 2h 15min – 4 hoursPathways · 3Output · Finished video / comic / game + Creator's Note + AI Audit

Archived version (v1)

This is the original v1 curriculum, kept for reference and for anyone mid-project on the old materials. It predates the Framework v1.3 revisions.

For the current version — six-stage inquiry, the Day One image reframe, low-AI routes at every AI step, and the REFLECT phase — use the current curriculum.

Pick your pathway

All three pathways follow the same shape: Anchor → Craft One → Reflect & Automate → Scale → Finish. Pick the medium that best matches the story angle you wrote in Phase 2.

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A Reel

Best for personality-driven moments. Vlog (selfie) or documentary (observed) framing. 5–8 second scenes with a character voice.

~4 hours · 4 steps · Veo 3.1 native audio
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A Comic Book

Best for sequence-driven stories. Pick an art style (BD, manga, watercolour…), generate panel-by-panel, letter the bubbles last.

~2h 15min · 4 steps · 6–8 panels
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A Game / Simulation

Best for stories that turn on a hard choice. Brief the AI in plain English, never look at the code, iterate by playing.

~2h 30min · 4 steps · 3 real decisions
What every pathway has in common

The same five-beat arc

  1. Anchor — lock the character (and for visual formats, the look) before you generate anything else.
  2. Craft One — make the first scene/panel/version by hand. No automation yet.
  3. Reflect & Automate — turn the recipe you just learned into a reusable skill (or a project doc, if time is short).
  4. Scale — use the recipe to build the rest. Audit before each generation.
  5. Finish — polish, add the Creator's Note + AI Audit, ship.

The same deliverable shape

You hand in three artefacts together:

  • The video / comic / game itself.
  • A Creator's Note — your story angle, evidence list, why this format.
  • An AI Audit — what AI got wrong, what you fixed, what you accept as honest uncertainty.
CHECKBefore you start
  • You picked the format that fits your story, not the one you find easiest.
  • You have your character description, evidence list, and story angle from Phase 2 ready to paste.
  • You have your first AI character image from Phase 1 ready to attach.
  • You know the deliverable is three artefacts together, not just the visual.