AI Video Generation Forgets Where the Camera Was. Here's the Screen-Direction Workflow That Fixes It
The 180-degree rule and the eyeline match don’t disappear just because your camera is a prompt, not a machine on a dolly.
I generated two shots for a dialogue scene in Lost Garden last month, cut them together, and watched two characters who were supposed to be facing each other end up staring in the same direction, like strangers waiting for the same bus. Nothing was wrong with either shot on its own. Both were clean, well lit, on model. Cut together, the scene told the audience the two people weren’t looking at each other at all.
Keeping screen direction consistent in AI-generated video means deciding, before you generate anything, which side of the action a shot sits on, then writing that decision down somewhere more permanent than your memory.AI video tools have no camera object that persists between generations. Nothing enforces the line for you. That job now...
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