The Continuity Bible: A One-Document System For Series Creators
A single AI video can survive on memory. A series cannot. By episode six, nobody honestly remembers whether the café chalkboard sat left or right of the door,
Prompts & Workflows
From Client Brief To Shot List: Turning Words Into Generatable Shots
Client briefs rarely arrive as shots. They arrive as feelings with a logo attached. “Make it feel premium.” “We want energy, but calm energy.” “Something like
Assembling 8-Second Clips Into A 60-Second Story Without Visible Seams
AI video generators hand you seconds. Stories need a minute. That gap is where most AI shorts quietly fall apart: eight lovely clips, each fine on its own,
Shot-By-Shot Approval: Approving Stills Before Spending On Motion
Most AI video budgets die the same way: a promising idea gets animated before anyone has agreed what it should look like. The motion costs money, the frame
Style Anchors: Film Stock, Lens And Era Words That Set The Look
“Cinematic” is the hardest-working empty word in AI video. It appears in millions of prompts, it feels like direction, and it changes almost nothing a viewer
The Reference Board: One Page That Runs Your Whole Shoot
Every AI video project starts tidy and ends in a scroll. Character sheet in Downloads, location photo in a chat thread, palette screenshot on the desktop, and
Prompting Hands, Eating And Contact: The Shots That Break First
Every AI video creator has a private folder of almost-great shots ruined by one hand. The face held. The light was right. Then the character reached for a cup
Action Verbs That Animate: Choosing Movement Words Models Understand
If your clip looks dead, the verb is usually the problem. Not the model, not the seed, not the resolution. The verb. I learned this the expensive way in my own
Emotion Without Melodrama: Writing Expressions Models Can Hold
Ask a model for “happy” and you get a theatre kid. Teeth, squinted eyes, head tilt, the whole face performing happiness at the camera like it is being graded
Consistent Locations: Keeping Your Sets the Same Across Shots
Locations drift between shots and quietly kill a series. Build a location sheet, feed the set back into every shot, and keep your cafe the same cafe.
AI B-Roll: Generating Filler Footage That Doesn’t Look Fake
AI B-roll works when it stays ordinary. How to prompt filler footage that matches your main shots — and where to never use it.
Storyboarding for AI Video: Paper vs Digital
Paper for speed, digital for control, and a hybrid workflow that locks characters and locations before you pay for a single generation.