How OVERCLOCK Episode 3 was made
“Baby, dinosaurs aren’t real.”
Seconds later, one walks out of the sea. Scroll through the scene shot by shot and see how one person made it in Agent Social.
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A calm beach at sunrise.
Every scene started as words in the Agent Social chat: who is on the sand, where the sun is, what happens next. Across the episode the scripts went through about 350 rounds of changes before anything was filmed.
That was one chapter. Here is the whole episode.
- chapters
- chapters
- clips
- clips
- pictures painted to plan the shots
- pictures painted to plan the shots
- takes filmed
- takes filmed
Episode 3 runs 5:42. Most chapters are a single clip; two needed a second one. Nine of the fourteen clips used their very first take, and every clip was filmed with Seedance 2.5. One person made all of it.
The same faces
Made once in Episode 1. Still the same people here.
Deep, Nora and Otto were made in Episode 1 and reused, so they look like themselves in every scene since. Only the new people in a story are made new: here, Rachel and her son Ethan at East Coast Park. Chapter 2 even opens on the exact last frame of Episode 2, so the story runs straight on from it.
DeepFrom Episode 1
NoraFrom Episode 1
OttoFrom Episode 1
Chapter 7 · the army’s command room
A room full of people, every one of them busy.
The clip I hold up as the example: officers at their screens, maps on every desk, the creature on the big screen, and only a few short lines spoken. It was filmed in one take. Busy rooms feel real when everyone in them has something to do.
Make a scene like this
How you would make the beach scene yourself
Step 1
Describe the moment
Write what happens in the chat the way you would tell a friend: the place, the time of day, who is there and what goes wrong.
Step 2
Meet your cast
Agent Social makes each character once, with pictures you approve. From then on the same faces appear in every scene and every episode.
Step 3
Read before you film
Read each scene back and ask for changes in plain words: a better line, a different camera, more people in the background. Change it as often as it takes.
Step 4
Film, watch, fix
Film each clip, watch it, and ask for another take of anything that misses. Trim a take to its best part, and when a moment needs more, add a clip that starts on the exact frame the last one ends.
Now watch it.
OVERCLOCK Episode 3, Burrower: the whole episode, on YouTube.