WINDOW ZOO — PREP KIT
Ellie's Safari Adventure · 1 min 41 sec · 1920x1080 · 24fps
motioncircles.com/ai-projects

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WHAT THIS IS
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Everything that existed before a single second of the film was
generated. The point of the kit is that the generating was the easy
part — this is the work that made the shots come back usable.

Fifteen scenes were written. Ten survived to the final cut. The five
that were killed are still in the shotlist, marked, with their prompts
intact. Read those first if you only have five minutes; knowing what
gets cut is worth more than another prompt to copy.

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CONTENTS
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window-zoo-directors-shotlist.html
    The full shotlist. Open in any browser. Every scene carries its
    description, its keyframe references, and the full prompt text
    with a copy button. Killed scenes are struck through and labelled.

character-sheets/
    ellie-hero ....... the lead, locked outfit (the "strawberry" pass)
    mochi ............ her companion
    animal-trio ...... the safari animals as a locked set
    whale-sheet ...... turnaround/design sheet
    whale-hero ....... the finale hero pose
    monkey ........... the scene 5B/6 character
    unicorn .......... the dream epilogue character

props/
    teddy-propsheet .. the teddy bear, multiple angles
    sticker-book ..... the sticker book prop

locations/
    station, train, cabin-interior, forest,
    finale-lake, night-exterior

mood-refs/
    The night sequence — mirror whale, constellations, plankton,
    whale window — plus the finale whale reference. Most of this
    material belongs to scenes that were cut. Kept here because the
    look survived into the finale even though the scenes did not.

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HOW THE PROMPTS ARE BUILT
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Every prompt in the shotlist is written against the same fixed
headings, in the same order:

    Style      the render target, plus what it must NOT look like
    Pacing     cut count and shot lengths, stated as a minimum
    Numbers    how many creatures — varied deliberately scene to scene
    Lighting   time of day and quality
    Color      the palette, including which colour is the accent
    Camera     frame rate, motion blur, movement vocabulary
    Acting     what the performance has to read as

Holding the headings constant is what keeps fifteen separately
generated scenes looking like one film. Change the values, never the
structure.

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USING IT
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The character sheets are the load-bearing part. Attach the relevant
sheet to every generation for a scene — not just the first — or the
character drifts between cuts. That single habit accounts for most of
the consistency in the final film.

Everything here is provided to study and to test with. The designs are
from a personal project.
