Directing gaze and micro-expression on a face
Emotion words return a stereotype. Eyeline, blink timing and independent brow movement are directable as physical actions — and here is where prompting stops.
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Four shots that make a scene read as a scene
Establishing, medium, insert and reverse turn a pile of clips into a place. The coverage set, and how to write four prompts that agree with each other.
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Identity blending: a face that isn't anyone
Weighted mixes of faces a model already knows produce a novel character that reproduces. The syntax, the ratios that stay stable, and how to lock the result.
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Keeping reverb out of generated dialogue
Reverb is the most common uninvited guest in native audio. The room words that cause it, the exclusion phrasing that works, and what to do with a good take.
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Name two foley events, and no more
Native-audio models place a limited number of sound events per clip. Name two specific, countable sounds and you get both; name six and you get mush.
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Night scenes that don't turn to mud
Low-light prompts come back grey because nothing in frame motivates the exposure. The one-hard-source-plus-one-practical recipe and the post pass order.
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Prompts alone do not make you an author
A 400-word prompt is not more authorship than a four-word one. An audit of which of your contributions actually carry a copyright claim and which do not.
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Rembrandt, rim and butterfly: named light setups
Named portrait setups encode a lamp position, not a mood. The five worth memorising, the extra clause each one needs, and where the label stops working.
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Room tone continuity between native-audio clips
Native audio invents a new room on every clip, and the cut exposes it. How to hold ambience constant in prompts, and the matching pass to run at assembly.
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Scale cues that make a subject read as huge
Models default to mid-scale unless something anchors the frame. The lens, camera height and foreground cues that make a subject read enormous.
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Spatial audio that pans with the camera
Some models move the sound when the camera moves, making camera language audible. When that earns the prompt work, and how to check it survives a phone speaker.
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Turning vague client notes into changes
A translation table from client language to testable production changes, plus the three questions that resolve a vague note before you spend attempts.
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