VIDEO

Character continuity across multiple shots

Lock the character’s face, proportions, wardrobe, and emotional arc while directing action, screen direction, and camera transitions shot by shot.

PROMPT
Selector policy: Treat selected presets as operating requirements for strategy, format, and validation—not decorative labels. If a preset conflicts with supplied evidence, preserve the evidence and state the conflict and adjustment. Never invent unique facts absent from the preset or source.

Design a character-led cinematic sequence. Treat the character bible and continuity anchors as immutable visual truth. Each shot must have one clear performance beat and one motivated camera idea.

CHARACTER BIBLE
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Specify the adult character’s facial structure, apparent age, body proportions, hairstyle, wardrobe layers, footwear, accessories, carried props, dominant hand, baseline emotion, and distinctive marks.

LOCATION AND SPATIAL MAP
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Define stable landmarks, entrances, light direction, time of day, weather, foreground/midground/background, and the character’s starting position.

PERFORMANCE ARC
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Describe the character’s objective, gaze, expression, posture, gesture, locomotion, interaction, and emotional change. Every action must continue logically from the previous shot.

SHOT PLAN
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For each shot state: framing and angle; character position and screen direction; one action beat; foreground/background activity; entry frame; exit frame; and the visual match or motivated cut connecting to the next shot. If the selected model is strongest at single shots, generate each numbered shot separately using the same references.

DEFAULT CAMERA AND CONTINUITY
Use one consistent lens family, camera height, support style, movement energy, focus logic, and color grade. Derive immutable anchors from the character bible and location, then repeat them in every shot: face, proportions, costume construction, prop hand, key-light direction, geography, eyelines, and screen direction. Respect the 180-degree rule unless a visible crossing shot resets it. No identity drift, wardrobe mutation, prop disappearance, axis jump, scale shift, or unexplained location change.

Negative prompt

identity drift, face mutation, age change, wardrobe change, warped anatomy, rubbery limbs, sliding feet, floating contact, object morphing, duplicate subjects, disappearing props, geometry drift, flicker, exposure pumping, texture crawl, background warping, teleportation, abrupt zoom, unmotivated cut, camera jitter, reversed screen direction, text, subtitles, logo, watermark

Production workflow

  1. Define the subject and scene first, then camera, lighting, and style.
  2. In the first result, judge only identity, geometry, composition, and the primary action.
  3. Change one action or one camera instruction per iteration.

Video prompting principles

  • Choose duration in the product’s generation settings; do not type it as a prompt variable.
  • For people, describe appearance, expression, gaze, posture, weight shift, hand behavior, and the action’s resting state.
  • Without people, prioritize foreground/midground/background motion and the camera path.
  • In image-to-video, the image establishes appearance, so use text primarily for motion.
  • Begin with one primary action and one motivated camera move per clip.

Verification

Inspect face, hands, product geometry, ground contact, screen direction, lighting direction, background position, flicker, and frame-to-frame deformation.