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Gather Your Setup Facts
You collect the casting rules first, then add only the room, gear, movement, and deadline details that affect your setup.
Made for Actors
Plan Your Frame, Light, and Background
Also useful for: people in Creative
12 min
Beginner
Content Creation
Get Hired
Create a practical self-tape setup plan that follows your casting instructions and works with your room, gear, movement, and deadline.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
You catch framing, lighting, background, and sound problems before you start performing full takes.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build and Test Your Setup
You run the compiled prompt, follow the setup plan, and check the result with a short recording before you perform full takes.
Make Your Play
Plan Your Frame, Light, and Background
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Paste your exact instructions for framing, orientation, slate, background, sound, file format, and any other recording rules.
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Describe your scene, your starting position, your eyelines, and any sitting, standing, walking, turning, or prop use you need.
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Describe your room size, wall options, windows, noise sources, and how far you can place your camera from your mark.
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List the camera, phone, tripod, lights, microphone, backdrop, and household items you can use.
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State your deadline and any limits on setup time, noise, helpers, or room access.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Gather Your Setup Facts
You collect the casting rules first, then add only the room, gear, movement, and deadline details that affect your setup.
02
Build and Test Your Setup
You run the compiled prompt, follow the setup plan, and check the result with a short recording before you perform full takes.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
You can estimate your room size and describe your gear in plain language. Copy your casting instructions exactly, including any notes about landscape or portrait framing, shot size, slate, movement, background, and sound. Run the prompt, set up your space, and record a short test before you perform a full take.
Advanced instructions
You can add your lens, camera settings, color temperature, microphone pattern, and room measurements. Ask for two setup options only when you need to compare a safer standard setup with a more specific visual choice.
Use this when
Use this when you have new self-tape instructions, an unfamiliar shot size, required movement, limited space, or a setup that isn't working.
You'll need
- Casting instructions
- Scene and movement
- Available space
- Available gear
- Deadline and limits
You'll get
- One setup that follows your casting instructions, keeps your full required movement in frame, gives you a clear eyeline, produces understandable sound, and passes a short test recording.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One setup that follows your casting instructions, keeps your full required movement in frame, gives you a clear eyeline, produces understandable sound, and passes a short test recording.
Examples
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