A 16:9 video made in Wyrlo AI, 0:25 The road that carried silk

Script

Pasted in, four sentences

Voice

ElevenLabs, Brad, Studio quality

Scenes

5: 2 AI videos, 1 animated graphic, 2 AI images

Models

Veo 3.1 clips at 1080p, Nano Banana 2 images, a map designed by Claude Haiku 5.5

Credits

3,026, about $3.03 in any pack, retakes included

Finish

The long-form render, no captions, subtle sound effects; no music

Edits

Scenes cut by hand on the Storyboard; some prompts rewritten, some scenes asked again and a graphic's words changed there, as anyone can. Nothing edited outside the app

1. 0:00AI videoFor fifteen hundred years, a web of trade routes carried silk, spices and ideas between China and the Mediterranean.
2. 0:08Animated graphicIt ran more than six thousand kilometres, from Chang'an through Samarkand and Baghdad to the sea.
3. 0:16AI imageAlmost no trader travelled all of it.
4. 0:19AI imageGoods passed from hand to hand, city to city,
5. 0:22AI videoand ideas travelled with them.

Transcript

For fifteen hundred years, a web of trade routes carried silk, spices and ideas between China and the Mediterranean. It ran more than six thousand kilometres, from Chang'an through Samarkand and Baghdad to the sea. Almost no trader travelled all of it. Goods passed from hand to hand, city to city, and ideas travelled with them.

• Every continent fits in one ocean

  Short, 0:15

• Every business has something worth showing

  Short, 0:19

• The city under the ash

  Short, 0:18

• A hundred dollars a month

  Short, 0:15

• The three tallest buildings on Earth

  Short, 0:17

• The book no one can read

  Short, 0:21

• Fresh at six

  Short, 0:09