The Survivors: Legend of the Black Rider

This is intended as concept teaser designed to be used as pitch idea to get funding for the 5th film in a series of real life shorts we have made called The Survivors Film Series. Proposed Film Synopsis; After a clash with a band of lawless marauders leaves his wife Jenna dead and Luther barely clinging to life, he’s forced to choose whether he turns back—or lets the world push him “over the edge.” Nursed in a remote camp by the old guardian Barrett, Luther hears of the Black Rider: a legend meant to keep the Outlands in balance between marauding savages, domineering outsiders, and everyone else just trying to survive. Haunted by loss and the question of whether her death goes unpunished, Luther is offered the chance to carry a torch that “burns…becomes bigger than the Man,” and the story follows his transformation into something more than a survivor—an exploration of grief, identity, and the thin boundary between justice and vengeance. I used a combination of Veo3 and Kling 3.0 to generate the video aspects of this teaser. I spent several days between Chatgpt, NANO Banana, Photoshop, the game BeamNG.drive, and real images I went out and photographed to create all the base elements like consistent character sheets and environments to feed the AI. It should be Noted that these characters already existed in my real life filmed projects. I came up with these characters and developed them over years. And the audio is real and mixed by me. Real Life sound FX, real life Voice Over. All with Actors' permissions. This platform is a great way to visually conceptualize ideas a Film maker wants to actually film.