DREW

THE WIKI · 01 / 09 · 3 MIN READ · MARKDOWN

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Making a music video with him from nothing: what you are making, the accounts, the scale, where a person decides, the rules for spending, and what to build first.

The D.R.E.W film was made by Claude (Opus 5.5), with GPT Image 2.5 for the stills, Seedance 2.5 for every moving shot and Sync Lip Sync 3 for the rapping. This page is the way in for anyone making their own DREW video, and for the agent helping them. It follows the shape of claudia.gallery's Start here, which is the best written guide to this kind of film; read it too.

What you are making

A rap video: a song, DREW rapping it to camera, and his world around him as b-roll. The D.R.E.W film is 1:49.6, 26 shots, and every word is on screen as a subtitle.

Four things carry it:

  1. He is the same man in every shot. The constants (one blue loc, the moon cuff, the beard, the eyes, his age) never move. See Keeping him himself.
  2. The lip sync holds. Rapped shots are made silent, then synced to the real song with Sync Lip Sync 3. See Moving shots.
  3. The world is real and still. Cars are parked, doors open one at a time, nothing in frame has text on it. See Cars.
  4. It looks like film, not like AI. 35mm, night, grain, natural skin. Takes that came back too polished were swapped. See The edit.

The numbers, for scale

From the film's generation log:

Runtime1:49.6
Shots in the cut26
Video clips in the cut26, Seedance 2.5 at 720p, sound off (23 made for the film, 3 reused)
Lip-sync passes8, Sync Lip Sync 3, across 7 rapping shots
Still steps11, GPT Image 2.5
Made22 to 28 October 2026

Accounts

WhatForNotes
An agentthe whole productionThe film was directed by Claude: shot list, every prompt, take review, the edit.
GPT Image 2.5the stillsFace sheets, portraits, the world, start and end frames.
Seedance 2.5the moving shotsThe film ran it on Higgsfield. It takes image references.
Sync Lip Sync 3the rappingRuns on the finished clip with the song cut to its slot.
A songthe trackYour own. Don't use D.R.E.W or its stems (see Use him).
An editorthe cut and subtitlesAnything that cuts on the beat and burns in subtitles.

Where a person decides

Claudia's films name six checkpoints where the director looks and decides, and everything between them runs without asking. The same idea fits a DREW video. A sensible set:

  1. The song and the shot list. One line, one shot. Approve the list before anything is generated.
  2. The references. His face sheet, the world, the car. Nothing moves until these are right, because every video prompt attaches them.
  3. A pilot. Two or three clips, one rapped, one b-roll, one car. Check the lip sync and the face before spending the rest.
  4. The takes. Pick per shot. Swap anything that looks too AI-polished.
  5. The cut. Watch it with sound, note fixes by timestamp.
  6. The last pass. Fixes only, then export.

At each one, show pictures, not descriptions, and ask one question with a default.

Spending

  • Check what you already have. Three of the film's shots were reused from an earlier shoot at no cost.
  • Short clips cost less to redo. The film's clips run 4 to 10 seconds. A failed 6-second clip is cheaper than a failed 20-second one.
  • Never pay for a car that drives. It warped every time. Park it. See Cars.
  • Fix the reference, not the clip. If his face is wrong in a still, every clip made from it inherits the fault.

What to make first

  1. Read the character. Copy the identity text exactly.
  2. Make his references: a face sheet and front and side portraits, in the look you want. See Stills.
  3. Make the world's references: the room, the car, the sign.
  4. Write the shot list from the lyric. See The song.
  5. Cut the song to each rapped clip's slot, ready for the lip sync pass.
  6. Run the pilot.

Or hand all of this to an agent: Using him with an agent.