How I made the AI police skit

The whole bodycam skit, from the cop's knock to the car taking off, was made with AI: the picture, the voices, the sound effects. Here are the tools, the exact prompts and the tricks, so you can make your own. From @mayorscript.

The short version. Make one realistic still picture first, then ask a video model to bring that picture to life, with the dialogue written like a script. Do a cheap low-quality draft before you pay for the final.

What I used

Step 1: make the first frame

Video models keep the look much better when you give them a starting picture. Describe the camera (here, a police bodycam), the place, the light and the people. Say what you don't want: no logos, no text.

A frame from a police officer's body-worn camera at night: strong fisheye wide-angle lens, slightly low and handheld, dark vignette at the edges. The officer stands right beside the driver's window of a sleek, very low, futuristic silver two-seat electric supercar with smooth curved panels, no logos, no badges, no brand marks, stopped on the shoulder of a dark highway with orange street lights and blue police lights reflecting on its paint. The officer's own forearm and knuckles are raised in the bottom right of the frame, about to knock on the closed tinted window. Through the glass, a bored young man in a black beanie and hoodie sits in the driver's seat, staring straight ahead with zero interest. Gritty, realistic, slightly grainy night footage. No text, no timestamp, no watermark.

Settings: aspect ratio 9:16 (vertical), quality high. I made two versions and kept the better one.

Step 2: bring it to life, with the dialogue

Pick the frame as the start image, then write the scene like a film script: who speaks, how they sound, and what happens between the lines. Ask for natural sound only, so it doesn't add music.

One continuous take from a police officer's body-worn camera at night: fisheye lens, handheld sway, the officer's voice loud and close to the mic. Gritty, realistic, slightly grainy footage on the shoulder of a dark highway, blue police lights flickering on the silver car. The officer knocks twice on the tinted driver's window (knock, knock). The window slides down. The bored young driver in a black beanie keeps staring straight ahead. OFFICER (firm, tired American cop): "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?" DRIVER (flat, completely unbothered, young American man): "Zero to sixty in under a second." OFFICER: "License and registration. And don't even think about it." The driver slowly turns his head toward the camera, smirks, and says: "Think about what?" He taps a glowing button on the center console. The car hisses, then roaring thrusters under the car blast white vapor and flame, and the whole car lifts straight up off the road into the night sky, hitting the camera with smoke and wind. The officer stumbles back and the camera tilts up, following the car's lights shrinking into the dark sky. OFFICER (quietly into his shoulder radio, defeated): "Dispatch... he thought about it." Natural sound only: gravel footsteps, highway ambience, crackling police radio, the thruster roar. No music, no subtitles, no on-screen text, no logos.

Settings: Seedance 2.5, 16 seconds, 9:16, audio on. Turn on draft first: it renders a cheap low-resolution version, and you only pay for the full 1080p version of the take you like.

Step 3: finish it

  1. Watch every draft with the sound on. Keep the one where the lines land and the timing is funny. Comedy lives in the pauses.
  2. Finalize that draft at 1080p.
  3. Add captions, because most people watch with the sound off, and a short title on top ("Pulling over the new Roadster:").
  4. Label it as AI. A realistic fake bodycam video can fool people. Instagram, TikTok and YouTube all ask you to mark realistic AI content, and an "AI skit" tag on screen keeps it honest.

Tricks that made the difference

Made 18 October 2026. Tools and prices change, so check them before you start. This is a joke about a car that doesn't fly yet; the real Roadster demo was a ramp and a hop.