Real piece produced with CLAQON
Period vlog: the first scanned purchase, 1974
An English vertical short in the “Period vlog (POV)” style: a fictional 1974 shopper tells the camera, vlog-style, about the first purchase ever read by a supermarket scanner.
- Production
- CLAQON
- Scene
- AI Characters style
- Format
- 9:16
- Duration
- 0:23
- Language
- English
- Real cost
- 1.26 USD
- Date
Capabilities shown
What it shows: the “Period vlog (POV)” style, an anonymous character from another era who talks to the camera like a vlogger. Each frame was requested the way the factory requests it in this style, with the character’s reference sheet so they look the same in every shot. The character talks to the camera with synced lips, as the style requires, with one detail shot in between. Because it looks real, it carries the “AI recreation” badge in the header for the whole video. It opens with the notice that it is a dramatization based on documented facts. The date, the place, the laser and the pack of gum come from the scanner’s record at the Smithsonian; the shopper is fictional and no real person appears or speaks.
How it was made
Production sheet
Everything you hear and see in this piece is cleared for commercial use. This is how the factory engine produced it.
- Scenes
- 5 code-animated scenes over the video, with titles and captions that follow the voice. The score passed the engine’s quality gate.
- Voice
- ElevenLabs, the “Chris” voice from its default library (Multilingual v2 model), with commercial use included in the paid plan. See the licence
- Music
- “Ambiant Obscur Technology” by Komiku (public domain, CC0 1.0). See the licence
- Sound effects
- 1 effects synthesised by the engine itself, with no third-party recordings.
- Picture
- Images generated with AI using Seedream 5 Lite (fal.ai), with commercial use according to each model’s page.
- Lip sync
- Lips synced with the voice by an AI model, Kling AI Avatar v2 Standard (fal.ai), with commercial use according to the model’s page.
- Provider cost
- 1.26 USD of real cost in paid services, recorded piece by piece: voice 0.04 USD · images 0.11 USD · lip sync 1.11 USD. Including the pieces paid for and discarded while making it, the topic cost 1.33 USD.
- Content sources
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How the factory makes a video like this
This sample was made with the CLAQON factory and the same request AI Characters makes for its style: each character’s sheet, its shots, ElevenLabs voices and the scenes layer on top. On your account, your AI model writes the script from sources and it passes the HARD QC before anything is spent on voice, images or video.
Official source
The scanner’s record at the Smithsonian, cited at the end of the video and in the sheet.
One sheet per character
Each fictional character has an AI-generated reference sheet, and every shot receives it so the character stays the same from start to finish.
Talking to the camera
The style always uses lip sync: the character talks to the camera with lips synced to their voice.
Cost on record
Every image and every second of lip sync is recorded with its real cost: the sheet breaks it down.
Pre-registration open
We make videos like this for your channel
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