The Method · £49
Six chapters. Readable in half an hour, and after that you will only ever come back to chapter four.
What you need
Two things you actually need and two that just help. An honest account of what this costs, and why a ruined attempt costs exactly what a perfect one does.
The eight steps
The whole process end to end, one line per step. Including the thing most people get wrong: you do not write these prompts by hand, you direct something else to write them.
What to type
Three messages, word for word. Plus the single habit that separates a one-line correction from a rewrite that throws away everything already working.
The twenty-nine fixes
The core of it. Every failure mode, what it looks like on screen, and the exact wording that stops it. Motion, camera, orientation, speed, clearance, continuity, contact and sound.
Making it look real
What people react to in under a second without being able to name it. Five limitations to put back in deliberately, and two things never to ask for.
Finishing and posting
The preparation step that stops a large share of uploads being refused before they generate, what to do about an unexplained rejection, and what the retention data actually says.
Production Edition · £149
Everything above, plus thirteen further chapters and the files to run them. This is the edition with the finished pictures in it.
Part Two · Why it works
The nine tells
The nine things people are actually reacting to when they say something looks generated, and why their explanation is usually wrong.
The first frame
Why the opening picture beats the prompt every time, what has to be in it, and how to compose one for a phone screen.
How a long prompt is built
The block order, why it matters, what to cut when you hit the character limit, and a lookup of which block owns which failure.
Staging what you pass
Creatures, vehicles and real landmarks. Why showing less is believed more, and where a thing can and cannot appear relative to the camera.
Voice and sound
Getting speech, screams and reactions out of it. Why pronunciation notes fail, what works instead, and how to stop it inventing dialogue.
Filters and rejections
Three separate scanners that fail in three different ways, the first move that costs nothing, and the wordings that trip it.
Platforms and AI content
What was actually observed across two platforms with identical files, the three competing explanations, and what to do about it.
Part Three · The production scripts
How to use these
What each script contains, the order to work in, and how to move one to a new location without breaking it.
The test frames
Four finished opening pictures come with this edition, cleaned and ready to upload, alongside the attempts that failed. Two of those failures are worked through in full, with the wording that failed set beside the wording that fixed it.
Four complete productions
Not examples of the idea. The actual working files, in the form you would paste them, each with its picture prompt, its full video instructions, and a note on which fixes are carrying it.
The dragon
A rider drops off a granite spire on the back of a winged creature and runs a glacial valley. The hard part is keeping the creature alive in the foreground.
The wingsuit
Twelve hundred metres down a limestone face, then a slot canyon barely wider than his wingspan.
The motorbike
Ground level, wet city, night, no falling at all. In the book to prove the method has nothing to do with height.
The dam
Two hundred and twenty metres straight down a curved concrete wall with nothing on it but shadow lines.
Specimen
One step, in full.
So you can judge the other twenty-eight. This one took four ruined generations to isolate.
Capital letters get read out loud.
Write a stage direction in capitals inside your beat prose and there is a good chance the model will have your character say it. Not act it out — say it. People spend days assuming their dialogue instructions are broken when the real problem is that the model cannot tell the difference between a note to itself and a line to perform.
The fix is a two-part convention that separates what is spoken from what is instruction, stated once and obeyed everywhere. It takes one paragraph and it ends the problem permanently.
He banks hard and goes FLAT OUT down the river.
"FLAT IT... GRIME IT..." spoken aloud, over the top of your actual line.
That's one of twenty-nine. The other twenty-eight include the two that stop it flying through buildings, and the one that fixes vertical descent permanently.
What comes in the file
Both editions arrive as a PDF by email, immediately after payment. The Production Edition arrives as a zip containing the PDF and the pictures folder, and the pictures are already cleaned and sized ready to upload.