How to make a video with ChatGPT

What you need

• An agent-media plan. Making starts at $49 a month: 300 seconds at 480p or 150 seconds at 720p.
• A ChatGPT account that can use a custom MCP server, which depends on your ChatGPT plan or workspace.
• No other accounts, no API keys and nothing to install.

1. Pick a plan

ChatGPT needs a video tool to film anything, and agent-media is that tool for short drama series. It is an MCP server: a set of tools ChatGPT can call while you chat. Making episodes needs a plan, so the first step is to sign in and check out.

Plans start at $49 a month for 300 seconds of video at 480p or 150 seconds at 720p. That is about ten 30-second episodes, a full season.

2. Connect ChatGPT inside the app

Right after checkout, the agent-media app shows the steps for ChatGPT. You add agent-media once and sign in through the browser, with no API keys and nothing to install. This guide stops there on purpose: the app shows the current steps for your account.

Adding a custom MCP server depends on your ChatGPT plan or workspace, so check that your ChatGPT account allows it. The same plan works in Claude and Codex too.

3. Ask for a series in one line

Open a new chat in ChatGPT and say what you want. You do not need a plot. If you already have one, put it in the first message and the interview gets shorter.

4. Answer the interview

The interview is free: no paid tool runs while ChatGPT asks. It comes in rounds of up to four multiple-choice questions, with the recommended answer first and room for your own words.

It covers the story, the season size, whether episodes come one at a time or all at once, the two leads, any friends or rivals, the places and whether the series is public or private. If you have no story yet, pick a starter or ask for pitches. Each round repeats back what was recorded, so you can fix an answer before moving on.

5. Approve the plan, the cast and the price

From your answers, ChatGPT writes the story bible, the season grid and the episode 1 script. The grid gives every episode a goal, one turn and a cliffhanger. You see all of it, with one total price for the casting and episode 1.

Nothing paid has run yet. Ask for changes in plain words, or say yes. One yes starts both: casting builds the two leads and up to six friends or rivals, each with a fixed face, a full body and a voice, plus up to eight places inside or outside. That cast and those places carry the whole series.

6. Let it film

Each approved script becomes a storyboard, shot by shot, and then a filmed episode with your cast. Filming runs in the background. ChatGPT checks on it and posts a short line as each stage lands, and if the chat has to end, filming keeps going.

ChatGPT keeps one board beside the chat in a canvas, with the plan, the cast, the sets, each script with its price, the storyboards and the videos. Scroll back to it at any time.

7. Watch the episode

When the episode is done, ChatGPT posts the watch link and the series page. Each episode is a vertical 9:16 video of 15 to 60 seconds at 480p or 720p, with the cast's voices, a score, captions burned in, no watermark and a freeze on the last frame.

If the series is public, it can appear on the agent-media series page next to our own shows. Private series stay yours.

8. Make the next one

Say it in those words. Before writing, ChatGPT reads the story so far: the facts, who knows what and which questions are still open. Then it writes the next script with its price and waits for your yes.

A script can be rewritten until filming starts. After that it is locked, and a change becomes a new episode.

What ChatGPT makes

The One I Left, episode 1, runs 21 seconds. A man orders white roses for his wedding from the florist he left at the altar, and the last line lands the twist: same flowers, different bride.

What it costs

Plans are monthly: $49 for 300 seconds at 480p or 150 at 720p, $149 for 900 or 450, and $499 for 3,600 or 1,800. A season of ten 30-second episodes uses 300 seconds at 480p, and you split your seconds across episodes any way you like.

There is no free trial. If you have not filmed an episode within 7 days, your first payment is refunded in full.

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