DREW

THE WIKI · 08 / 09 · 3 MIN READ · MARKDOWN

What went wrong

Every failure in the film's record, as what you see, why it happened, and the rule that came out of it.

Each row comes from the film's generation log and its record of what went wrong. The table shape is borrowed from claudia.gallery's What went wrong, which has many more rows from seven films and is worth reading before you spend anything.

Him

What you seeWhyThe rule now
All his hair comes back bluesome takes dyed every loc, not just oneA tied-back hair ref on the shots that build or fix him, and the line "Only ONE single loc is bright blue, at the front left. All his other hair stays black."
He turns to the camera while drivingthe model keeps turning him toward the lensMake an edited still where he watches the road and she watches him, and use it as the start frame.
He looks into the lens in a b-roll shotnot recordedEvery b-roll prompt says his eyes never turn toward the camera.

Lip sync

What you seeWhyThe rule now
The rapped words come out wrong and about 3 seconds lateSeedance can't lip sync to a song: with the song as an audio reference it kept the beat but dropped the vocal and rapped its own wordsGenerate the shot silent, then run Sync Lip Sync 3 on the finished clip.
The first word is missed or mumblednot recordedStart each rapped clip with a still half second, and say so in the prompt: "For the first half second he is silent, then he raps these exact words."
Claudia's face needs its own syncshe shares the rooftop close-upCrop her face, sync it on its own, and lay it back in with a feathered mask.

Cars

What you seeWhyThe rule now
Doors open the wrong way, two doors merge into one, people pass through carsthe model doesn't know how the doors workA door-closed still and a door-open still as the start and end frames, and the wording "Locked-off tripod shot. Parked, engine off, wheels still. The door is hinged at the windscreen pillar and swings forward, up and outward in one arc." Only the door in use opens.
The car warps as it movesmoving cars warpNever write "pulls up", "drives in" or "speeds off". Every car is parked unless the shot is the car itself.

The cut

What you seeWhyThe rule now
Claudia looks into the camera at the start of a shotthe clip opens on her looking at the lensTrim the first 1.5 seconds in the edit (shot 21).
A shot starts too early after a long onenot recordedTrim the head of the clip in the edit (shot 22 loses its first 0.33 seconds).
Text, tickers or logos turn up in framenot recorded"No text, no logos" in every prompt, and in the check before a still feeds a video.

Spending

Three shots (the watch, the moon over the tower, the 4am terrace) came from the Leave The Lights On shoot at no extra cost. Check what you already have before you generate.