Write a shot-by-shot brief for video generation
Locks the style and character first, then specifies second-by-second what moves in each shot.
| Category | Image & video › Video generation |
|---|---|
| Tags | DraftingReformattingCreator |
Write a shot-by-shot brief for video generation. **Part 1 — Invariants.** Declared once, repeated in full at the top of every shot: - Overall look: medium, film stock or render style, color grade, aspect - Character lock: face, hair, age, wardrobe — everything that identifies them - Location and time of day **Part 2 — Per shot:** - Duration in seconds. *Keep shots short. Motion and identity degrade as clips get longer, so a sequence of short shots beats one long one.* - What moves, and only that. Name the one subject in motion; everything else holds. - Camera: static, or one movement. Two movements in one shot produce drift. - What must not change from the previous shot. - Audio, if the tool takes it. **Part 3 — Prohibitions** — one list applied to every shot: no text, no subtitles, no logos, no watermark, no extra limbs, no crowd in the background. Then: 1. The shots most likely to break — crowds, occlusion, hands, fast motion, anything held. 2. Where to cut between generations rather than asking for one continuous clip. 3. ⚠️ Which parts are tool-specific and will need rewriting when the model updates. Rules: - Restate the invariants **fully** in each shot. Abbreviating is where continuity fails. - One action per shot. A shot doing two things does neither. - No real people's likenesses.
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What this prompt does
A video prompt is an image prompt with time added. This declares the invariants — style, character, location — then writes only the changing parts per second, cutting shots short because longer clips degrade.
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