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Lock the requirements and device
You confirm the required frame, slate, and file setup before checking creative details. You also remove preventable recording interruptions.
Made for Actors
Check Your Setup Before You Record
Also useful for: people in Creative
8 min
Beginner
Content Creation
Get Hired
Run one fast setup check covering your camera, frame, focus, exposure, sound, background, wardrobe, storage, and interruption risks.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Avoid finishing a strong take only to find soft focus, bad sound, low storage, a distracting background, or the wrong frame.
Your answers save as you type.
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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Check what the camera sees
You inspect the lens, camera position, focus, exposure, background, and wardrobe as one visual check.
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Record and judge a 10-second test
You test the full setup under the same conditions you'll use for your take, then make a final go or fix decision.
Make Your Play
Check Your Setup Before You Record
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
Name the phone, camera, or computer and the app you'll use to record.
Paste or summarize the requested orientation, shot size, slate, file, and delivery rules.
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Describe where you'll record and the light, background, and sound available.
Note anything that could stop or delay your recording.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Lock the requirements and device
You confirm the required frame, slate, and file setup before checking creative details. You also remove preventable recording interruptions.
02
Check what the camera sees
You inspect the lens, camera position, focus, exposure, background, and wardrobe as one visual check.
03
Record and judge a 10-second test
You test the full setup under the same conditions you'll use for your take, then make a final go or fix decision.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
You paste your setup details into the prompt, follow the checklist in order, and make each fix before moving on. You don’t start a full take until your test clip passes.
Advanced instructions
You can add your camera’s exposure tools, audio meters, external microphone, color settings, or manual focus method. You still record a test clip and review it on the device you’ll use to judge your takes.
Use this when
You use this after setting up your self-tape space and before recording your slate or first full take.
You'll need
- Device and recording app
- Slate and framing requirements
- Recording space
- Known risks or time limits
You'll get
- Your required frame and slate format confirmed
- Storage and interruption risks cleared
- Your picture and sound checked
- A 10-second test clip watched
- A go decision reached
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- Your required frame and slate format confirmed
- Storage and interruption risks cleared
- Your picture and sound checked
- A 10-second test clip watched
- A go decision reached
Examples
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