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
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.

CAMERA LANGUAGE
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Define a consistent lens family, camera height, support style, movement speed, focus transitions, and when the camera becomes still. Do not use a camera move merely for decoration.

LOCKED CONTINUITY
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Repeat these anchors in every shot. Preserve face, proportions, costume construction, prop hand, color grade, key-light direction, geography, eyelines, and the 180-degree screen-direction rule unless a visible crossing shot intentionally 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.