For everyone who is offended at the idea of Kirk being seen as a womanizer - take heed that I clearly show how often they attack him. Now does kissing them back make him a womanizer? Maybe.....
The singing performance is all Kling Motion Control (so me singing and dancing and transferred to the character) the rest is a mix of Kling, Veo and Wan. The song is :
"The Winner' by Mishka and the Tigercats human written lyrics, human vocal input and a tight follow setting.
For a more human expression (and not the "deadpan" singing of normal lipsync) I recorded myself performing for both singers and ran it through Kling Motion Control. I wrote the song, so I knew the expression I wanted for every part.
Actually less frustrating than regular video prompting!
I normally work for weeks on my videos, and pay for Kling, but I challenged myself to make a video in just one day and all free. Mostly put together from a billion Meta AI 5 second clips, some Wan clips, and HeyGen for the lipsync (they claim you get 3 videos for free, but they won't let you download anyway - had to OBS my way out of that one 🤣)
The meta clips I often zoomed in, slowed down to go with the beat of the song or sped up for movement to look authentic (editing done in CapCut). Many had flaws, so only a part was usable (the drastic hooker clevage in the stage shot came entirely from Meta. I started prompting "modest" after that 🤣🤣). But in the end it all came together.
Pedal to the metal I forgot that vertical reels on Youtube can't go over 3 minutes, so basically the video can't get views as a vertical full length song, but then again it was an experiment.
But Meta will give you 16:9 horizontal format if you put that in the prompt.
The song - "What He Would Have Wanted" by Mishka and the Tigercats - was written in 2021, and I was just going through my old recordings on my phone and found it (forgot I wrote this song totally!), added sung instruments on top of the original recording and in a few hours I had Suno'd this song. I just find the lyrics - inspired by Columbo - fit so perfectly on our current grieving widow, so all outfits are inspired by Erika Kirk 😂
All the singing scenes are done in Kling Motion Control. I used the 720p resolution on purpose - I feel that for this style it actually looks better.
i have a tutorial out on YouTube about the making of this video where I show how the motion control worked for me : https://youtu.be/-tkpRnkadQ8
I do recommend it - getting the AI out of AI was important for me , and you get to infuse your characters with some human soul this way. Also - it is less frustrating than prompting your way to the scene you want, and there were not that many AI-weirdness glitches as I have seen in other video production methods.
An unexpected but fully functioning solution. Beware - lipstick costs as much as 1500 Kling credits...