ShowCreator
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Show poster generator

A poster is the fastest way to make a pitch feel real. Show Creator renders one-sheet key art from the fields already on your pitch card, in the 2:3 ratio a poster should be, with no text baked into the image so the title stays yours to typeset.

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Every episode, same five acts

Cold openAct oneAct twoAct threeTag

Twelve beats, one take each, four to fifteen seconds a take.

01

Posters from the pitch, not from a prompt box

Most image tools hand you a blank prompt and leave the art direction to you. The poster generator reads the pitch instead: the title (as a subject, not rendered as lettering), the logline, the mood words and the tone line. Those four fields already describe the show; the poster prompt is assembled from them so that the image and the pitch agree.

Add an art-direction note when you want a specific picture: “the window-washer platform at golden hour, the city below, one figure”. The note is appended to the generated prompt, checked by moderation, and rendered for three credits.

02

What a good one-sheet needs

A poster has to work small, in a feed, at a glance. The generator asks for one composition rather than a collage, strong directional light, a printed-poster colour grade, and no text, logos, borders or watermarks. The result is a clean 2:3 image you can lay a title on in any tool, or leave bare on the pitch page where the title already sits beside it.

  • 2:3 one-sheet ratio.
  • No lettering, logos or borders in the image.
  • Prompt built from title, logline, mood words and tone.
  • Optional art-direction note.
  • Three credits per render; a new poster replaces the last.
03

Where the poster goes

The poster is the first thing on your public pitch page and the thumbnail on your slate. It also appears in the hero of the series page above the episode list. When you cut the pilot, the episode plays beside the poster, which is the whole idea: a one-sheet with the pilot under it.

Posters are moderated after rendering like every image on the site. A poster that fails is removed and the credits for that render are not returned, because the model has already run. Try a different art-direction note.

04

Posters and the cast library

The poster is deliberately separate from the cast library. Cast portraits are references for video renders and must stay neutral headshots; the poster is free to be dramatic. If you want a specific character on the poster, describe them in the art-direction note using the same words as their library description and let the model interpret it.

A practical habit: render the poster after the mood words are settled and before the act sheet is drafted. The poster is the quickest test of whether the mood words are doing their job. If “velvet, brisk, deadpan” produces an image that looks nothing like the show in your head, the words need work before they shape twelve beats of script.

Sample takes

Rendered from beats like yours

A suspended window-washing platform high on a glass tower at golden hour. Lazlo, late 30s with salt-flecked curls, squeegees a pane and sees, through the glass, a folded memo on a desk with one line highlighted. He stops wiping.
Dawn on the iron gallery deck of a lighthouse. Dagny, a weathered woman in her 60s in a navy duffel coat, lowers a pair of binoculars and says quietly, "That boat was not there last night." Gulls wheel; the sea is grey.
A bright development office at midday. Thea, early 30s, dark hair cut to the jaw, uncaps a marker at a whiteboard covered in a series arc and tells the room, "We have one afternoon to make them say yes." Coffee cups, a long oak table.
A cramped thrift-store stockroom under a bare bulb. Esme, mid 30s with a blunt black bob, pulls a hand-drawn storyboard flipbook from a coat pocket on the rack and whispers, "This is the pilot. He never lost it."

Questions

Can the title be printed on the poster?
The render is instructed to leave text out so the typography stays clean. The pitch page displays the title beside the poster; for a printed one-sheet, add the title in any layout tool.
What ratio is the poster?
2:3, the standard one-sheet shape. The pitch page shows it at that ratio.
Can I keep more than one poster per show?
One poster per pitch. Rendering a new one replaces it; download the old one first if you want to keep it.
Is the poster generated from an uploaded image?
No. Posters are rendered from the pitch text only. Uploads are limited to outfit, set and prop references in the cast library.
Who owns the posters I make here?
You do. Everything the service produces at your direction belongs to you under our terms of service, and you can publish it, sell it or keep it private. Because copyright is handled differently by each country, check with a lawyer in yours before signing anything that depends on ownership. Read the terms of service.

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