Writing

The parts of generative filmmaking that are not prompting

Holding a face, a wardrobe and a light across a whole sequence. The difference between a start frame and a style reference. When to stop asking the model and take a risky event into compositing instead.

These come out of notes kept during production. Real jobs, real numbers, including the ones that cost me four days.


3 September 2026 · 4 min · Medium

Your image-to-video tool might be ignoring your image

Two different products are sold under the same name. One takes your still as a literal first frame; the other reads it as a style reference and re-synthesises the shot from your text. A model that lands on the same wrong answer twice was never looking at your image. The test costs one generation.

3 September 2026 · 4 min · Medium

Character sheet first

Whether a generative cast holds together is decided before the first hero frame is generated. Why longer prompts make consistency worse, why a character sheet has to be boring, and what breaks when you promote a good hero frame to reference instead.

29 August 2026 · 4 min · Medium

A brand campaign in three days

Two synthetic performers, six products and three vertical films, built on one board because the dependency order was fixed before anything was generated. What the graph looked like, and the one product row that never made the published set.

29 August 2026 · 5 min · Medium

A 17-minute heist documentary with nothing filmed in it

FLAWLESS reconstructs the 2003 Antwerp diamond heist around an interview with the man who led it. The reconstruction is synthetic; the testimony is not, and that line decided every design choice in the film.

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