AI music video · making-of
Warum machst du das?
The music video for the song by Keks & Krümmel. A film about abandoned pets, built with AI, from the script and every opening frame to the edit.
- song length
- 3:20
- shots in the script
- 50
- clips signed off
- 45
- render runs
- 238
- hours of GPU time
- 28.9
Where production stands
- Concept and scriptdone50 shots, each with timecode, line, action and camera
- Opening framesdoneReference sheets, locations and 15 additional opening frames made with Nano Banana
- Scenes and video promptsdone44 scene descriptions, all under 5,000 characters
- Clipsdone45 clips signed off, each chosen from four attempts
- Rough cutdoneTimeline for DaVinci Resolve and a preview with the song
- Lip sync, second attemptin progress13 shots signed off. S19 dropped, duets get portraits as references. Open: S19, S37, S40, S45 (duet), S42, S47, S48 (solo)
- Fine cut and gradingopenColour in S04, fade-ins, title and closing text
Behind every number
The song is told from the point of view of an abandoned animal. So the video opens as a black-and-white documentary with real figures and then follows three fates: Sammy the dog at a service station, Mia the cat in a back yard, Flocke the rabbit in the forest.
In between, Keks and Krümmel sing in an abandoned animal shelter. At the end, a cage door opens.
How the song is built
Twelve sections across 3:20.6 minutes. Highlighted: sections with singing or spoken text.
- Intro 0:00
- Spoken documentary text in black and white. At “hinter jeder Zahl steht ein Lebewesen” (behind every number there’s a living being), the colour comes back.
- Instrumental 0:31
- Title card in the edit. A first look into the shelter, then the happy memory of Sammy as a puppy.
- Verse 1 0:43
- Sammy’s story: taken in, grown up, left behind at the service station.
- Pre-chorus 1:04
- Keks takes over. Sammy waits through the night.
- Chorus 1:17
- Both singers in the frame, intercut with the family memories of all three animals.
- Transition 1:38
- Echo of “Warum machst du das?”. The light bulb swings, then the story switches to Mia.
- Verse 2 1:48
- Mia’s story: she used to wait at the door; now she sits in a cardboard box. Flocke in the forest at the end.
- Bridge 2:09
- The quietest moment. Keks alone with Sammy’s red collar.
- Final chorus 2:21
- Faster cuts between the duo and all three animals.
- Echo & pause 2:43
- The light in the shelter goes out. A brief flashback to the puppy.
- Outro 2:53
- Keks and Krümmel sit side by side. Sammy waits until morning.
- Fade-out 3:12
- Hope: a hand opens Sammy’s cage door. Then a black screen with text.
Everything about the video
- Rough cutAll 50 shots on the song, with the waveform and the current line.
- CharactersSammy, Mia, Flocke and the two singers, with their reference images.
- Diary23 entries from the idea to the second lip-sync attempt, including rejects and why.
- All 50 shotsA filterable contact sheet; every shot has its own page with opening frame and clip.
- Effort238 render runs, render times per shot, two graphics cards compared and Claude’s share.
Who’s involved
Ascot Media
Commissioned the music video for the song “Warum machst du das” by Keks & Krümmel.
no0bz Production
Concept, images, rendering and edit. Script, prompts and the review of every image together with Claude.
Tools
- Nano BananaAll reference and opening frames. Fixes are made with edit prompts rather than a fresh roll of the dice.
- ComfyUIImage-to-video: 10-second clips in full HD at 48 frames per second, rendered locally.
- Prompt toolTurns an opening frame and a scene description into the finished video prompt.
- faster-whisperLocal speech recognition that gives the start and end of every line of the song.
- DaVinci ResolveEdit and grade. The timeline comes from a script as an FCPXML file.
- ClaudeScript, storyboard, prompts, scene descriptions, reviewing the images and the making-of.