A Screenplay Slugline Is a Free AI Video Prompt
Three shots into the same scene, my AI video tool changed the sun. The wide shot had long gold light slanting through the trees. The insert had flat midday light. The close-up on the character’s face read closer to dusk. All three shots came from the same line of the script: EXT. FOREST - DAY. The model wasn’t confused. The prompt was.
A screenplay slugline already contains the location and time-of-day anchor an AI video prompt needs, but the standard format is written to stay vague on purpose, so copying it straight into a prompt is exactly why your AI-generated shots keep disagreeing about what time it is. That’s not a model problem. It’s a translation problem, and it’s fixable before you spend a single generation.
What Is a Slugline, and Why Does an AI Model Care About It?
A slugline, also called a scene heading, is the all-caps line...
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