For My Man: an Atlanta teen was promised a new life

The story

Atlanta teenager Felicia Blakeney thinks she's found the man who'll make all her dreams come true. Brian Smith promises they will leave town together and start a whole new life somewhere else. The price of his love turns out to be murder.

The episode moves from a cheap motel room to an embrace by a lit mirror, with a fur coat and a gun passed hand to hand. It follows how a young woman's love pulls her into a crime she can never take back. Detective Harold Pruitt and Adrienne Coles describe how a promise of escape became a mess Felicia will never be able to undo.

This program contains dramatizations. Certain situations, dialogue, names and locations may have been changed.

How it was made

The episode was produced in ShowMaker Studio, with AI performances, narration, voices and an original true crime score.

Video was made with Wan 3.0 and the voices with ElevenLabs, inside the Scene Flow workflow for building scenes.

The work was AI-assisted and done one shot at a time. Each shot was set up and approved on its own before it was rendered.

What to take from it

In true crime, the objects carry the story. A fur coat and a gun passed hand to hand say more in a few seconds than a line of narration can.