Lore

Actor-Directing Prompting Method (Takes and Incremental Notes)

A prompting method that treats directing an AI model like directing a real actor: shoot multiple takes of the same beat, adding incremental notes pass by pass — breath, emotion, physicality — rather than trying to specify a perfect performance in one prompt. Hesitation Beat for Human-Feeling AI Performance is one example of a note added this way. Feeds into Take Compositing for Best Performance, where the best take of each performer across these passes is selected for the final composite.

Example: Directing a Beat

Example: Directing a Beat

A sample of the directorial, actor-note style of prompting this method uses for a single beat:

"He takes the glasses off like he's the face of a luxury eyewear brand. The flares streaks across the frame and the eyes come up half closed."

The prompt describes intention and feeling (a brand-ad flourish, a specific half-closed-eyes beat) rather than only mechanical camera/action instructions — the same register a director would use talking to an actor between takes.

Iterative Constraint Refinement

Each successive generation pass adds exactly one more specific directive on top of the prior broad prompt, mirroring how a director gives one note at a time across multiple takes rather than one long list of instructions upfront. A pass might start from a broad emotional/action prompt, then the next pass adds a breath, the next a specific body-physics detail, the next a finer emotional beat — narrowing in on the performance rather than re-describing the whole shot each time. Framed explicitly as directing a performance, not debugging a technical output: the notes given between passes are the same kind a director gives a human actor between takes.