DirectorSeat

Your friends are the cast. Your phone is the camera. DirectorSeat is the director. DirectorSeat helps you make a real short film with the people around you, on one iPhone, in one sitting. Type an idea. AI writes the plan: scenes, shots, dialogue and direction, written for your people and your place. Then the app guides every shot while you film, and assembles the finished film on your phone. It is not an AI video generator. Every frame is something you actually filmed. HOW IT WORKS • Type an idea in a sentence or two, or start from a template. • Get a plan: scenes, a shot list, every line of dialogue and plain-language direction. Change anything, or ask for a different line. • Hand the phone to a friend: their part is written as simple actions (do this, look there, say this), so people who have never acted can act. Each actor can get their part on their own phone from a QR code. • Film shot by shot. Quiet checks on framing, light, sound and level give you one tip at a time, in plain words. No camera jargon, no settings. • At the countdown, brightness and color lock and stay locked for the take, so your shots match. • When the last shot is in, DirectorSeat cuts the film: safe trims around every line, a Natural Film look (or your original footage), dialogue-first sound and, if you like, one of five music cues made for the app, which steps back for the dialogue and ends with the film. • Choose per film: Vertical (9:16) or Widescreen (16:9). • Every clean export comes with a share pack, made on your phone from your film: two posters, a teaser, a credits card, a behind-the-scenes cover and a How We Shot It reel. A FINISHED FILM, NOT A TIMELINE You never see an editor. You get a film with a title, ready to share. NO SUBSCRIPTION Planning, shooting and exporting are free. The free export carries a small DirectorSeat mark in the corner and a 2-second end card. A clean export without them uses a Film Pass, bought once per film or three at a time. Your first film's clean export is free. A pass is only used once your film has rendered, and a film you've exported clean can be exported again for free. HONEST ABOUT AI Your plan is written by AI (Anthropic's Claude) through our server. Before your first plan we ask your permission: the text of your idea, your character names and your edits are sent to Anthropic to write the plan. Anthropic does not use this data to train its models and deletes it within 30 days (longer only if flagged for a safety review). To suggest music and a look for the finished film, Cloudflare's AI reads two lines of the plan and keeps neither. Your videos and audio never leave your phone: filming, editing, color and sound all happen on the device. AI-written plans can be wrong or odd; read the plan before you shoot and change what you don't like. You can turn AI off at any time in the app's About screen. PRIVACY No account. No ads. No tracking. Your films stay on your phone until you save or share them. GOOD TO KNOW • iPhone only, iOS 18.6 or later. • For adults 18 and over (see our Terms). This is not about mature content: the AI service we use has extra rules for younger users that we haven't built yet, so DirectorSeat is for adults for now. • Plans can be written in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portuguese; the app's interface is in English. • Writing the plan needs an internet connection. Filming and export work offline. Terms: https://egehazar.com/directorseat/terms Privacy: https://egehazar.com/directorseat/privacy Support: https://egehazar.com/directorseat/support