Notes from the stage
What we learn building a production system, and what the people using it keep running into.
24 February 2026 · 10 min read
Stop asking for dramatic lighting
Direction, quality, level, colour. Four short clauses a gaffer could execute, and the model stops guessing.
10 February 2026 · 9 min read
Locations drift more than faces do
A street that moves between shots breaks the geography of a scene. What holds it together is a four-item list.
27 January 2026 · 9 min read
Five seconds is one beat, not five
Most bad generated acting is three performances stacked into one take. Writing action is mostly subtraction.
13 January 2026 · 8 min read
What a generated shot actually costs
The expense is never the frame. It is the thirty attempts at a shot nobody could describe precisely.