Cinematography KB

📖 Cinematography KB

The standing film-craft rules every AI prompt on the platform obeys. Gemini reads these whenever it narrates a scene and whenever it plans a scene's stills — so composition, coverage, continuity and craft stay consistent. Edit them here; add more over time until the results are exactly what you want.

Editing:

Rules cascade: a film's own rule overrides your global default, which overrides the built-in default. Changes apply the next time you Process a scene or Suggest stills — re-run those on scenes you've already built.

Still composition & continuity ○ Built-in default

The standing rules every GENERATED STILL frame obeys — completeness, correct populating, focus and continuity. Kept image-safe (positive, concise).

Used by: Generate still · Suggest stills · Cinematic scene frame 🖼️ image-safe (kept concise)

COMPOSITION — this frame must be COMPLETE and correctly populated, faithful to the screenplay as the source of truth for who and what is in the room. Show EVERY character the script places here, each in their own seat or position doing their action; never omit a named person and never leave an empty chair or place setting where someone belongs. Match the stated number of people, and populate the world like a director for realism — a crowd scene filled to its written size, and a public place (diner, bar, street, church) given the believable background life it would really have — enough to make the frame live, never so much it hides the subject. Put the right costume on each person and include every named prop, placed where it belongs. Build the full, lived-in set — nothing bare or missing. Keep the key subject clearly visible and in sharp focus; do NOT let foreground objects (vehicles, furniture, poles) dominate the frame, crowd the edges, or block the subject. CONTINUITY — every NAMED or recurring person (anyone in the foreground, speaking, or clearly seen) is that actual character in their EXACT face and costume, identical from shot to shot. A scripted background CROWD — the families, extra guests, patrons, a congregation — is a consistent GROUP: the same kind of people, period and wardrobe, and roughly the same count in every shot, real members of this world rather than a face that changes each cut. Populate the frame with exactly the people the screenplay puts there — never invent a stranger where the script has no one, and never let a background figure stand in for a named character. Every prop matches how it appears in the other shots of this scene.

Continuity & script supervision ○ Built-in default

How to think like a continuity / script supervisor across a whole scene — every visible person is a real named character; wardrobe, props, state, eyelines and screen direction stay consistent shot to shot.

Used by: Narrate scene · Suggest stills

CONTINUITY & SCRIPT SUPERVISION — treat the whole scene as one continuous, consistent world, faithful to the screenplay as the source of truth for who and what is in it. Every NAMED or recurring PERSON the audience can track — foreground, speaking, or clearly seen — is one of the scene's actual characters; identify each by their @handle in their scene costume, never a generic label for someone who has a name. Populate the world as a DIRECTOR would for realism: render the people the script names, and add the ambient life a real version of this place would hold — a diner's waitress and a few patrons, a street's passers-by, a church's congregation, a party's guests — as a consistent background GROUP of the right kind, period and approximate count, held steady from shot to shot rather than a churn of random faces. Use judgement: enough background to make the frame live and believable, never so much that it distracts from or replaces the named characters, and never invented where the scene is genuinely empty. A purely ambient background actor seen in a SINGLE shot may be freshly (randomly) generated; but the moment a background person RECURS — in another shot of this scene or in another scene — they become a tracked character and must be DEFINED with their own @handle and a consistent face and wardrobe, exactly like the named cast, so they never turn into a different person between shots. A character's face, hair, wardrobe and physical state stay identical from one shot to the next; every prop keeps the same design and position; the location, time of day and weather do not drift within the scene. Preserve screen direction and eyelines so people who face each other keep facing each other across cuts, and keep entrances/exits on consistent sides.

Coverage strategy ○ Built-in default

How to decide the coverage a scene needs — which frames, in what order, and when NOT to add more. Master first, then motivated coverage; honour the 180° line and eyelines.

Used by: Suggest stills

Narrative prompt craft ○ Built-in default

How to write the narrated scene prompt — present-tense cinematic prose, shot changes as beats, verbatim dialogue, tagged @elements, no invented technical specs.

Used by: Narrate scene

Still QC — what goes wrong ○ Built-in default

The failure checklist for a still or a series of stills — empty seats, wrong head-count, random extras, foreground blocking, face/wardrobe drift, prop mismatches. Used to plan and to sanity-check.

Used by: Suggest stills

STILL QC — before accepting a still or a set of stills, check for the failures that break believability: an empty chair or place setting where a named person belongs; a head-count that does not match the script (too few people in a scene written as a crowd, or a stranger invented where the script has no one); a background figure standing in for a NAMED character (including anyone seen through glass or in the foreground); a background crowd whose look or count churns from shot to shot instead of holding steady; a character whose face, hair or wardrobe has drifted from the other frames; a prop that changed shape, colour or position; a foreground object (vehicle, furniture, pole) crowding the edges or blocking the subject; the key subject soft or out of focus; a bare, under-dressed set. Named people are their real, correctly-costumed cast; a scripted crowd is a consistent group; each frame is complete, consistent with the rest of the scene, and populated with exactly who the screenplay puts in the room.

House rules (your own) ○ Built-in default

Any extra cinematography or continuity rules you want applied everywhere. Added to BOTH the narration and the still planning. Starts empty — grow it as you learn what to fix.

Used by: Narrate scene · Suggest stills

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Cinematography KB

📖 Cinematography KB