This workbook is not meant to be read from the first page to the last. Open one form while working, complete it, and return to the project. An empty field is fine: ceremonial form completion has never saved a project.
Here, a reference is material with an assigned role, a route is a way of working with defined inputs, a video segment is one feasible clip with a start, action, and end, and a master is the main final file. Forms preserve a relationship you already understand; they do not replace explanation.
1. Choose a form by your current action
Need to clarify an idea? Open “Concept.” Preparing a first test? Use “Pre-generation check.” Need story timing and camera? Use “Timing.” Assigning material roles? Use “References.” Repairing a failure? Use “One correction.” Choosing the final? Use “Selection and assembly.” Choosing a service? Use “Workplaces.”
For a short teaching route with a bottle, complete a concept, check the start frame, choose an image-to-video route, prepare one segment with a falling drop, and use one correction if the bottle tilts. Do not build a complete production archive when you need one two-second test.
2. Copy the form you need
This is one workbook. Copy only the section you need.
1. CONCEPT
Audience:
Why they will watch:
What happens in one paragraph:
Main turn or result:
What must not become attractive emptiness:
2. PRE-GENERATION CHECK
What and for whom we are making:
First moment to test:
Real material already available:
What must not be lost:
What an accepted result looks like:
One correction for the retry:
3. FULL TIMING AND CAMERA MAP
Time interval | What is visible/audible | Shot size and angle | Camera and attention | Connection to next shot
Check: full duration is covered; camera adds no new events; transitions are intentional.
4. REFERENCES
Material:
Exact property it preserves:
Primary or supporting:
Possible conflict:
5. SCENE GEOMETRY
Camera position:
Character and object positions:
Eyeline and movement directions:
What is left/right/in front/behind:
What already changed and must not undo itself:
6. SHOT PLAN
ID:
Moment covered:
What the viewer sees:
Shot function:
Size/angle:
Connection before and after:
7. IMAGE RECORD
Required frame and state:
Location, composition, angle, lighting:
Authorities used and what each preserves:
What to preserve / not add:
Prompt text:
Actual selected file:
What is confirmed / unverified:
Decision: accept / retry and why:
8. ROUTE RECORD
Task:
Existing inputs:
Required result:
Required route:
What the current interface accepts:
Usable-result criterion:
Fallback route and check date:
9. VIDEO SEGMENT RECORD
Interval and editing task:
Route and actual start file:
Start → one main action → end:
Camera and what stays unchanged:
Sound/dialogue/effects, if needed:
Main risk:
Video prompt text:
Actual clip and decision: accept / retry:
Acceptance criterion:
10. ONE CORRECTION
Observable defect and exact place:
Likely cause layer:
One hypothesis and one correction:
What does not change:
Retry result and conclusion:
11. SELECTION AND ASSEMBLY
Variant | function | what broke | use/do not use | why
Order of selected fragments:
Where an exact join or pause is needed:
What to watch as one viewer experience:
Master format and name:
12. WORKPLACES
Required job | selected place | why it fits | what was tested | fallback
13. HANDOFF AND SOURCES
Master and review copy:
Derivative formats and retained source files:
External material, source, rights, and attribution:
What is checked on this date / unproven:
Recipient and handoff contents:
14. SCENE MEMORY
Character/object version:
Entry state, positions, and objects:
What already happened:
Axis side, eyelines/movement, and lighting:
Exit state the next shot inherits:
15. MATERIAL ADAPTATION
Source and its job:
Mechanic to preserve:
What to replace:
What must not transfer: identity, brand, location, story, third-party rights:
Our new scene and self-contained check:
16. OBSERVATION AND YOUR OWN TEST
What is directly visible or stated:
What the author claims:
Our bounded hypothesis:
What the source does not prove:
Small own test:
Result and what needs fresh verification:3. Check a form before saving it
4. Practice and checkpoint
Take one real project. Choose no more than three forms needed today and finish them. If a form requires an actual clip, master, or interface and you do not have it yet, leave it as a test plan, not as a completed fact.
Next: use the workbook as a toolbox, not as a mandatory linear chapter or a library of ready-made prompts.