[01]Workshop
★ National Coding Week 2025AI StoryLab: Where Design Thinking Drives the Plot
Day one of National Coding Week 2025, and the brief was a story told entirely with AI. We learned to write scripts, generate realistic audio and voiceovers, and produce and assemble video with generative tools. By the evening I had an 8-second ad for a hair oil, made from a chain of prompts. 🎬
- When
- 15 September 2025
- Where
- Chitkara University, Punjab
- Hosted by
- Evolve AI · Department of CSE-AI, Chitkara University
- Part of
- National Coding Week 2025
[01]The unveiling
BeforeAfterDrag to pull the cover off. 🎈
Gold balloons, a covered easel, and then the week had a name.
A week of AI at Chitkara University, organised by the Department of CSE (AI) with Evolve AI and IIC: three workshop-based events and a mini competition.
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[02]The crew
Neural Ninjas
- Govind Jindal← that's me
- Bhavishya Grover
[03]The storyboard 🎬
How the ad was made, one prompt at a time. Each scene is a tool, what I asked it, and what came back.
Find the idea
ChatGPTMe → ChatGPT
Creative ad ideas for the brand "hanuven haircare and skincare solutions".
Every story starts with a brief. I picked a brand, a hair-nourishing oil, and asked for ad concepts before touching a single image.
Write the prompt for the prompt
ChatGPTMe → ChatGPT
A prompt for Nano Banana, with a reference image of the Hanuven hair oil. Then: "Long silky hair woman neem leaves prompt".
Instead of writing the image prompt myself, I had one model write it for another, with the product photo as the reference.
Generate the image
Gemini · Nano BananaMe → Gemini · Nano Banana
"Create a high-quality, realistic portrait based on the provided reference image. Maintain my facial features…" Then: "combine both and improvise".
The portrait and the product shot, combined into one frame: the woman, the bottle, and a wooden base with open coconuts.
The scene that became the first frame of the ad Write the script
GeminiMe → Gemini
Text no longer than 10 seconds, in English and Hindi.
"Discover the ancient secret to luscious locks. Hanuven Hair Nourishing Oil deeply penetrates, strengthening your hair from root to tip. Infused with nature's finest, it revitalizes, leaving your hair vibrant, silky, and undeniably beautiful. Hanuven. Experience the strength within."
Direct the video
GeminiMe → Gemini
She picks up the oil from the wooden base with open coconuts at its sides, pours it and massages it in, then a "saheliyon ki baari" style bath, then says the tagline, with lip sync.
The clip came back at 8 seconds: the pick-up, the pour and the massage, with sound. The bath scene didn't make the cut. 🛁✂️
The pour, three seconds in
[04]The final cut
Hanuven Hair Nourishing Oil · 8 seconds · made with generative AI
[05]What I learned
Scripts that fit the clock
Generating compelling scripts, and cutting them to the length the scene allows. Ten seconds is not a lot of words.
Realistic audio and voiceovers
Creating voices and sound with AI, so the story could be heard and not only seen.
Producing and assembling video
Turning a still and a script into motion, and stitching the pieces into one clip.
Chaining models
One model's output is the next one's prompt. ChatGPT wrote for Nano Banana; Gemini picked up the image from there.
Design thinking first
The tools were the easy part. Deciding who the ad was for, and what it should feel like, came before any prompt.
[06]Credits
Directed by
Govind Jindal
Ad ideas, and writing prompts for other models
ChatGPT
Image generation from a reference photo
Gemini · Nano Banana
Script in English and Hindi, and the video
Gemini
Produced by
Neural Ninjas
In association with
Evolve AI · Department of CSE-AI, Chitkara University
[07]Behind the scenes
[08]The certificate
That's a wrap ✓Participated in "AI StoryLab – Where Design Thinking Drives the Plot" at National Coding Week, 15 September 2025, from Evolve AI and the Department of CSE-AI, Chitkara University. Signed by Dr. Vandana Sood, Dr. Kamal Deep Garg and Dr. Sushil Kumar Narang. 📜
“I walked in thinking of AI tools one at a time. I walked out thinking of them as a crew: a writer, a photographer, a voice artist and a director, each handing the work to the next.”
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