Direction
Saga Voss is an AI actress I created and direct. Need to Talk started as a videobook scene for her portfolio. A young woman rehearsing a breakup alone in a room, going over the words she hasn't said yet. Small scene, real emotion.
Need to Talk
Short film
Process
The challenge was making an AI character perform, not just appear. Consistency across shots, believable acting, a script that gave her something to actually play. I wrote the script, directed every sequence in Seedance 2.0 using omni reference to hold her identity across the whole piece, then built the voice in ElevenLabs and cut the final edit in Premiere.
Result
Need to Talk became the first piece in Saga's portfolio as an AI actress and a new way of experimenting with AI acting.
The Hunt
Short film