🎥 Shots Guide

A shot is a single, continuous view from a camera. In filmmaking and animation, shots are the building blocks that combine to create scenes. Shots represent all the individual videos that you will want to generate and put together to form your final movie, episode, commercial, etc. Each shot will have very specific directions for each character and stage, you will be able to generate first and last frames for each shot and we also supply you with a video prompt to use with those first/last frames.

In StableGen:

• Part of a Scene: Multiple shots combine to tell a scene's story
• Has Specific Framing: Camera angle, height, and zoom level
• Contains Visual Description: What the audience sees in this moment
• Generates Frames: Each shot can create first and last frames (or more)

Each shot in StableGen includes several key elements:

• Shot Number: Sequential numbering for the shot
• Shot Type: Classification of the shot
• Description: Detailed description of what happens in the shot
• Camera Direction: Where the camera is pointed and what it captures
• Camera Angle: The angle from which the shot is filmed
• Camera Movement: Any camera motion during the shot
• Lens: Focal length in millimeters
• Framing Notes: Composition and framing details
• Duration: Length of the shot with timecode in/out
• Lighting: Lighting setup and mood
• Dialogue: Any dialogue spoken during the shot
• Transition Out: How the shot transitions to the next
• Video Prompt: AI prompt for video generation
• First/Last Frame Prompts: AI prompts for generating keyframes

Once your characters and stages for a shot have been linked to the script, they will be connected to the shot. At that point, you will just need to select the image asset that you want to use in the first and last frame of the shot for each character and stage.

The process to generate a frame:

1. Link all the assets for characters and the stage that are in the shot (create them if necessary)
2. Generate the frame
3. Review the result: If you like the frame great, you are done! If not you may edit the prompt or just simply re-generate to take another try at it. AI image generation is not a perfect science yet, we do as much as we can at StableGen to make it more predictable but it is not perfect.

Now that you understand shots, continue the production process:

• Frames Guide → Learn how to generate and composite final images

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