Standardized Shot Table Specification

STEP 5: Standardized Shot Table Video Prompts (Six Columns)

After character cards and scene cards are locked, output standardized video prompts as a shot information table. This step is mandatory and cannot be swapped with storyboard or video generation. Create a canvas table node or markdown table named 标准镜头信息表 or standard-shot-table.

The table must have exactly six columns in this order:

Shot ID & Duration	Continuity Handoff	Reference Anchors (Spatial + Identity)	Hook Type	Shot Description (Per-Second Directives)	Audio & Dialogue Track

Column rules:

• Shot ID & Duration: shot number plus planned duration, e.g. S03 / 6s.
• Continuity Handoff: how this shot naturally continues from the previous shot’s ending image, prop position, eyeline, character posture, sound bridge, or emotional state, AND how it sets up the next shot’s opening. This is the cross-shot continuity spine.
• Reference Anchors (Spatial + Identity): four sub-fields, all mandatory.
  • Fixed Landmarks — exact named landmarks from the scene card, with their screen-relative positions (e.g. door-frame: right third, kitchen-island: center bottom).
  • Character Positions (camera view) — for every character in the shot, screen-relative position (left/center/right, top/mid/bottom, foreground/midground/background), facing direction, and initial pose.
  • Exited Character Status — for any character who was in the previous shot but is not in this shot, state their off-screen position and reason (e.g. Mia — exited frame-left, last seen holding apple basket at door-frame).
  • Lighting Baseline — inherited key/fill/rim direction from the scene card, plus any per-shot modifier (e.g. key: warm overhead, fill: cool bounce right, modifier: window-backlit silhouette).
  • Plus identity bindings: exact approved character card names and exact approved scene card name.
• Hook Type: one short label from a controlled vocabulary, e.g. visual-joke, reversal, suspense, tender, chase, reveal, callback, expression-beat. Used for the per-episode hook distribution self-check.
• Shot Description: shot size, camera movement, Dutch-angle design, performance style, SFX, negative prompt, video-model generation notes (the model chosen in Step 7 — H3 or Seedance 2.0 — receives slightly different prompt shapes; for H3 emphasize packaging keywords and text/UI/motion-graphics clarity, for Seedance 2.0 emphasize cinematic camera and elastic performance), and a required Per-Second Directives subsection. The subsection must break the shot into second-by-second instructions such as 0–1s, 1–2s, 2–3s; for sub-second critical beats, use 2.0–2.5s style markers. Each per-second directive MUST cover all five required elements:
  1. Action / pose / expression (squash-and-stretch, anticipation, overshoot, follow-through where applicable)
  2. Camera movement (push / pull / pan / tilt / handheld-shake / locked / orbit)
  3. Spatial position (where the character is, what they hold, what landmark is in frame)
  4. Audio cue (narration / dialogue / SFX / breath / silence — or silent if intentional)
  5. Handoff to the next second or next shot (what state this second locks in for the next one)
• Audio & Dialogue Track: full audio script for the shot in time order, separate from per-second cues. Fields:
  • Narration — voiceover text with time range (omit if no narration).
  • Dialogue — line, speaker, tone, time range.
  • SFX — keyed sound effects, time-anchored.
  • Performance Note — when the protagonist is narrating off-screen, mark narrator-mouth-closed: true; describe expression path during narration; describe concrete eye-line and body-action changes for each dialogue line.

Table-wide rules:

• Each shot must naturally inherit the previous shot’s image state through the Continuity Handoff column and set up the next shot in the same column.
• Each shot row must include per-second directives that cover the entire shot duration from first frame to last frame, including action, pose, expression, camera movement, spatial position, sound cue, and continuity handoff.
• Per-second directives must be specific enough to generate storyboard panels directly; avoid vague timing such as “continues moving” without body, camera, or prop detail.
• Performance must be exaggerated and elastic, matching Disney-style squash-and-stretch, anticipation, overshoot, follow-through, overlap, arcs, fast pose changes, and clear comedic silhouettes.
• Shot sizes must alternate close-up / extreme close-up with other necessary framing; avoid repetitive framing.
• Dutch-angle tilted compositions must be designed into chase, imbalance, surprise, or slapstick beats.
• Dialogue language only if explicitly requested by the user; otherwise use minimal non-language-specific reactions or mark dialogue as optional / pending confirmation.
• For shots containing narration or dialogue, every second where the character is speaking must record whether the mouth is open or closed; the default is closed for off-screen narrator, open for on-screen dialogue.
• A character who left the frame must still be tracked in Exited Character Status for at least one shot, then dropped after they are explicitly off-stage for two consecutive shots.

Then show a user choice card:

• Approve table and run self-check (recommended)
• Adjust shot continuity
• Make animation more exaggerated
• Adjust close-up / extreme-close-up rhythm
• Adjust Dutch-angle design

STEP 5.5: Shot Table Self-Check Gate (Mandatory)

Before moving to pencil storyboards, run a hard self-check on the approved shot table. If any check fails, revise the table and re-run before asking the user to approve storyboarding.

Six required checks:

1. Hook density: every shot has a Hook Type; at least one of every three consecutive shots uses a reveal/reversal/callback; the opening shot and the closing shot each carry a strong hook (visual-joke / reversal / reveal / suspense / tender).
2. Single-shot duration: no shot exceeds 15 seconds. If a beat needs more, split it.
3. Character count per shot: no shot contains more than three important characters (defined as characters with on-screen action or dialogue).
4. Spatial anchor inheritance: for every interior scene with two or more shots, the Fixed Landmarks and Lighting Baseline of the next shot must either match the previous shot or include an explicit continuity note (e.g. door-frame moves from right third to center as camera orbits left).
5. Per-second directive coverage: every second from 0s to the shot duration is covered by a Per-Second Directives entry, and each entry contains all five required elements (action/pose/expression, camera, spatial, audio cue, handoff). Sub-second beats like 2.0–2.5s are allowed but must not leave any time gap.
6. Cross-shot continuity: reading the Continuity Handoff column row by row produces a continuous chain — no shot starts from a state that contradicts the previous shot’s ending. Any shot that flips eyeline, character position, prop state, or lighting must mark the flip explicitly (e.g. HARD CUT — time skip: 2h).

If all six pass, place a shot-table self-check: passed stamp at the top of the canvas table node and show the user choice card:

• Approve self-check and draw shot storyboards (recommended)
• Show self-check details
• Revise failed checks
• Re-run self-check

If any check fails, do not enter Step 6. Return to Step 5, list the failed rows, and only re-show the storyboard approval card after the table is fixed and the self-check passes.