Lesson · Craft · 10 min

Write a prompt the model can stage

Build prompts from story facts to production choices: subject, action, space, camera, light, sound, and continuity.

Facts before decoration

Start with who is present, where they are, and what visibly happens. Only then add camera, lighting, texture, dialogue, and sound. The model needs a stable event before it needs adjectives.

Separate viewer copy from engine structure

Keep a readable version for editing and a structured version for generation. Shot timing, reference bindings, and sound instructions belong in the production layer, not in the user’s idea sentence.

Before you shoot

✓Every named subject has one visible action
✓Camera and light describe how to show the action
✓Dialogue, ambience, and continuity do not contradict the image

Practice brief

Build the seven-slot prompt

Write subject + action + setting first. Add one camera instruction, one lighting instruction, one sound layer, and one continuity rule.

Subject and action first; then setting, camera, light, sound, and one continuity rule. Keep every instruction observable and mutually compatible.

Practice in Prompt Lab ↗