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The Moment Before

A DeShawn Marks Film

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At 11:11 p.m., a woman struggling to send a message that could alter someone’s life receives a call from a stranger who somehow knows what she has written—and what she will ultimately decide—forcing her to confront whether a choice can still belong to us if someone already knows we are going to make it.

Jade is texting someone she hasn’t answered in weeks, and she can’t get the last line right. An unknown number calls. She answers the third time he calls. The man says she keeps changing the last sentence and the first one was better. She hasn’t sent it. He says something’s about to fall upstairs, and it does. A car alarm is next, he says, and one goes off. She asks what she’s supposed to do. He won’t tell her. She asks if he knows what she’ll do, and he says yes.

The Moment Before, the poster

Full credits

A World of You Never Know | A DeShawn Marks Film
Producer, Director, & Writer
DeShawn Marks
Executive Producer
DeShawn Marks
Music produced by
DeShawn Marks
Director of Photography
HTM Crew (AI): Director of Photography
Production Designer
HTM Crew (AI): Production Designer
Edited by
HTM Crew (AI): Editor

Cast

Jade
Jade Cornish (AI-generated performance)
Voice of Jade
a voice designed in ElevenLabs
Michael
Michael Wray (AI-generated performance)
Voice of Michael
a voice designed in ElevenLabs
The Neighbor (voice)
Harry (ElevenLabs voice library)
Daniel
Terrence Holloway (AI-generated performance)
The TV man
Raymond Kessler (AI-generated performance)

Casting

Voice Casting
HTM Crew (AI): Casting, with DeShawn Marks

Production

Executive Producer
DeShawn Marks
Post-Production Supervisor
Claude Code
Production Pipeline Engineers
Claude Code; OpenAI Codex; Cline
Production Coordinator / Records
HTM Crew (AI): Assistant Director

Direction and Continuity

Directing Team
HTM Crew (AI): Director
First Assistant Director
HTM Crew (AI): Assistant Director
Script Supervisor / Continuity
HTM Crew (AI): Assistant Director

Camera

Director of Photography
HTM Crew (AI): Director of Photography
Camera Design and Coverage
HTM Crew (AI): Director of Photography
Virtual Camera Rigging and Grip
HTM Crew (AI): Director of Photography, Blender
Motion Picture
Kling 3.0 Pro

Lighting

Lighting Design / Gaffer
HTM Crew (AI): Director of Photography

Art Department

Production Designer
HTM Crew (AI): Production Designer
Set Design and Decoration
HTM Crew (AI): Production Designer, Blender
Prop Master
HTM Crew (AI): Production Designer

Costume, Hair and Makeup

Costume Design
HTM Crew (AI): Hair, Makeup and Wardrobe
Hair and Makeup Design
HTM Crew (AI): Hair, Makeup and Wardrobe

Editorial

Editor
HTM Crew (AI): Editor
Assistant Editors
HTM Crew (AI): Editor
Colorist
HTM Crew (AI): Colorist

Visual Effects

Visual Effects Supervisor
HTM Crew (AI): Compositor
Compositing
HTM Crew (AI): Compositor
Screen Graphics, Clock and Phone Displays
HTM Crew (AI): Compositor, built in code
Previsualization
HTM Crew (AI): Compositor, Blender
Figure Animation and Hand Inserts
HTM Crew (AI): Compositor, Blender
Key Frames and Stills
Seedream 5 Pro
Lip Sync
Kling AI Avatar Pro; Wan 2.7
4K Upscale
ByteDance Video Upscale, via Higgsfield
Generation Platform
KIE.ai; Higgsfield

Sound

Supervising Sound Editor
HTM Crew (AI): Sound
Sound Designer
HTM Crew (AI): Sound
Foley and Sound Effects Editor
HTM Crew (AI): Sound
Re-recording Mixer
HTM Crew (AI): Sound
Voices and sound effects created with ElevenLabs
Additional sound effects from Pixabay (Pixabay Content License)

Titles

Title Design and Logo Sting
HTM Crew (AI): Compositor, built in code

Music

Music produced by
DeShawn Marks
Score
Created with ElevenLabs
“Citrus & Silk”
Written by DeShawn Marks. Performed by Entanglement
“nothing more, nothing less”
Written by DeShawn Marks. Performed by Daniel Coats
“room to breathe”
Written by DeShawn Marks. Performed by Diah
Songs mastered with LANDR

Special thanks

Keon Marks, for vocal assistance
Made in Metro Atlanta, Georgia
Hit The Mark Entertainment
This film was made with generative AI tools under the direction of DeShawn Marks. The characters and events are fictional.
© 2026 Hit The Mark Entertainment. All rights reserved.

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