Narrative scenes and product scenes
If there is conflict, choice, or change, treat it as narrative. Turntables, materials, and feature demos are product scenes and do not need invented drama.
Two kinds of scenes
If a character is chasing, hiding, choosing, concealing, or changing, treat it as narrative. If the shot is a product turntable, material study, feature demo, or establishing plate, treat it as product. Product shots usually do not need an invented personal conflict.
For narrative scenes, answer these in a brief first. Only visible carriers should land in the final prompt
- What dramatic job does this beat do: introduce, pressure, turn, test, reveal, or pay off?
- What is the one visible before → after in this beat?
- Whose experience organizes the information?
- Who has more control at the start, and who has it at the end?
- What does the subject want to get, protect, avoid, or hide?
- What blocks them, and how do they respond?
- Is the surface behavior different from the real intention?
- Is there a small withheld action that still leaks?
- Is there a prop, habit, or sound detail that only belongs to this scene?
- What is the lazy default for this genre, and are you deliberately refusing it?
Product scenes can often be constrained in two lines
prove: the label stays readable as condensation forms exclude: no invented character, rivalry, seduction, or emotional reveal
Those questions belong in a brief or in your head. The prompt itself should keep visible carriers: gestures, props, where the camera move stops, where light comes from, and what the sound contains. Terms like “POV” and “subtext” usually should not be fed directly to the model.