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Extreme close-up of two hands held, a daughter's and a mother's, in low golden light on a London street

Making Connection Visible: The Shot Grammar of Kama Muta

An empty street and a woman small enough to cover with your thumb. Forty seconds later, two hands fill the frame. Part 8 of The Art of Kama Muta is the grammar in between: every shot size, its emotional job, and a twelve-frame ladder you can lay your own film along.

Nine-panel storyboard of an AI short film scene in shooting order, the visual form of a shot list

How to Turn a Script Into a Shot List for AI Video

A script tells a reader what happens; a generator needs a list of shots. The twelve-column AI video shot list, the rules for coverage and duration, the row-to-prompt converter, and the audit that finds the gaps before you spend a credit.

Four AI shots of one scene as coverage, wide, medium, close-up and insert, written with the scene formula

How to Write AI Scene Prompts With the Scene Formula

An AI scene prompt is a shot list entry, not a description. The eight-part scene formula, the rules for each part, and eleven prompts that cover one scene from establishing wide to final close.

The same AI character under four lighting lines with skin tone and coat colour held consistent

How to Light an AI Character the Same Way in Every Shot

The wide is warm, the close-up is cool, and her skin went grey with it. AI lighting consistency is the quietest way a character breaks. The four-part lighting line, the colour anchor, twelve lighting lines and an audit.

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I make short films with AI first, then I teach the exact method behind every frame. The script, the prompts, the characters and the voice are all tested on real projects before they reach this library.

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