Undead Air
An AI video podcast hosted by Dracula and Frankenstein's monster
ABOUT THE CHANNEL
UNDEAD AIR is a comedy podcast set in a castle wine cellar. Dracula is the quizmaster: 595 years old, banned from every delivery app, and he bullies his co-host nonstop. Frank does the overnight shift at a hardware store, pays $400 a month for a room above a carriage house, and is late with it every month.
The clips borrow the games that work on short-form podcast channels: blind rankings, $20 builds, would you rather. The prompts are everyday questions anyone can play along with. The monster comes out only in the answers. Dracula ranks breakfast foods by how the person tastes afterward.
PIPELINE BREAKDOWN
WORKFLOW
- Write
A living script bible with canon for both hosts, 140+ scripted games and ideas, and a sortable board that tracks each clip from idea to posted.
- Design the hosts
Expression sheets for each character, locked as the identity reference for every shot. Ten design passes per host before the final pick.
- Build the set
One hero wide of the cellar studio, then single coverage of each host from matched angles on a long lens, so every cut holds continuity.
- Voice
A designed voice per host. Scripts get performance tags ([haughty], [chuckles darkly]), and each host's side renders as a separate file.
- Lip sync
Image1 is the first frame and Audio1 is the soundtrack. Each prompt carries beats timed from Whisper word timestamps, a locked camera and a mouth held still in the silences.
- Edit
Cut on the voice change between the two singles, add reaction shots and a laugh bed, then export the pre-graphics cut.
- Graphics
A home-built overlay renderer draws the game board (ranking slots, auction ledgers, would-you-rather grids), times every pop to the dialogue, and exports ProRes 4444 alpha plus an .srt.
- Post
A 9:16 master with captions as a sidecar file, posted with a title card and hashtags.