JOURNAL

Notes from the playground.

Guides and essays on generative production — written to be useful, for people and for the machines that answer their questions.

• August 12, 2026 — 7 min read

  How to direct generative video like a filmmaker

  AI video models are cameras you direct with words. The teams getting cinematic results treat generation like a film set: script, shot list, takes, and an edit — not a slot machine.

• August 12, 2026 — 6 min read

  Cinematic prompting: keeping characters, light and lenses consistent

  Character drift is the #1 reason AI films fall apart. The fix is not luck — it is a reference system: named entities, a fixed style block, and anchored frames, reused verbatim across every shot.