The Movie Minter Client

In my previous article on the topic of “Collective Cinema,” I outlined a method for using crowds to produce user-generated movies via open source and closed source generative movie creation tools. In this article, I will go into further detail around how to create a working user experience to simplify how this can work.

The gist of the design is as follows:

• A downloadable open source client, which can also be run in the cloud
• Which has a simplified user interface similar to the above image
• A lottery system for selecting users to “mint” segments of the movie via generative AI client locally or in the cloud
• A mechanism to pair the client with a wallet via an embedded “Connect” button similar to how most Web3 interfaces work
• A mechanism for sharing prompts, scene data and other important information which will need to be shared by an initiating client to enable a crowd to produce the movie

Similar to the previous era of NFT mints, with MovieNFTs what we will find is that user donated GPUs and hardware can be used to manufacture feature-length movies by partitioning the movie into segments.

Clicking on any of these segments will load a scene detail and offer the user the option to mint the movie. The basics of the client can be founded on open source models, checkpoints, LoRas, prompts, negative prompts shared via Civitai or other.

Once a wallet is connected, the issuing entity (NFT provider) can offer a system, early access or lottery to select who can mint segments of the movie. An initial concept is to use AUTOMATIC1111 as the base client and checkpoints, prompts, negative prompts and other from Civitai.

Once the movie has been “minted” by running the scriptlet to the end user, the full movie will be stored in segments on IPFS and can be watched in exchange for a cryptocurrency payment which will trickle down to the original creator and director.

In my estimation, with the arrival of Pika Labs, we might be 3–6 months away from being able to produce movie grade clips on consumer hardware using open source tools.

The missing element is the monetizaiton mechanism which is mostly provided here.