Cornstalk Studios

We built a tool for making shows, made one with it, and it made us a studio.

StoryBarn

StoryBarn is the tool Hoyts Barn is made with, and it is open to anyone. Start from a photograph or a story you have written, and it hands back a bible, a cast, a first scene with the dialogue written, and a rough cut in cast voices. The first two looks are free and nobody asks for a card. It holds the continuity together while you make the rest.

A production starts in a Studio — a show, a film, a commercial, a music video — and fifteen more are on the lot, each waiting for its own phases: an album, a book, a podcast, a documentary, a game, and on. The barn is where they are made.

Open StoryBarn

What is possible today. The same person in two separately generated shots, from one locked reference, cut together — no retouching, and the sound came back with the picture. The camera tests show the rest: what these models can do, and where they still fail, measured on clips we paid for.
A grid of twenty square pictures: the barn, then one for each Studio — show, film, commercial, music video, and the fifteen declared.
The barn, and the nineteen Studios on the lot.
Six people in work clothes standing in the open bay of a timber barn, HOYT BARN 1878 lettered on the beam above them, hills and stone walls behind.
The cast of Hoyts Barn, together — every one of them generated from the story with StoryBarn.