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Impossible Footage · authoring diagrams

Who is the camera?

Same room, same woman. Where you put the lens decides who the audience is.

window door her VOYEUR GUEST TRESPASSER
click a camera

Shot size is a sentence

Each size says something different about the same person.

The Kuleshov effect

One neutral face. Change only the next shot, and the audience reads a different feeling into the face.

pick what the face is "looking at"

The 180° rule

Keep the camera on one side of the line between two people, and they face each other. Cross it, and the world flips.

the line her him A ✓ B ✓ C ✗ crossed
click a camera

Lenses & light have opinions

Focal length changes how near the world feels; light changes what the face is willing to show.

Storyboard → shot

Draw it first. The board is the contract; each panel becomes a prompt.

storyboard

Image → video, price per shot (this film, today)

Same pipeline, different budgets. Test ideas on the cheap models; spend where the shot needs it.