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Set Your Reader Rules
You fill in the scene details with exact instructions for timing, pace, overlap, emotional level, position, and framing.
Made for Actors
Give Your Reader a Clear Scene Brief
Also useful for: people in Creative
8 min
Beginner
Creative Planning
Communicate Better
Create a send-ready brief that tells your reader exactly how to support the scene without directing your performance.
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 prevent late cues, unwanted overlaps, distracting eyelines, and reader choices that pull your take off course.
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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Build and Send the Brief
You run the primary prompt, check the result against your sides, and send the final brief before rehearsal.
Make Your Play
Give Your Reader a Clear Scene Brief
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
Summarize the situation, name your character, and note where the scene begins.
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List every character your reader will voice and any needed voice distinction.
State when your reader starts, where you need pauses, and which cue words matter.
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Describe the speed and rhythm you want from your reader.
Mark exact places where your reader should interrupt, overlap, or wait.
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State how much emotion you want from your reader and what would be too much.
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Give your reader's position in relation to your camera and whether your reader should move.
List any lines or moments your reader must deliver without entering your frame.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
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Set Your Reader Rules
You fill in the scene details with exact instructions for timing, pace, overlap, emotional level, position, and framing.
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Build and Send the Brief
You run the primary prompt, check the result against your sides, and send the final brief before rehearsal.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
You can use short phrases instead of full sentences. If you don’t need a special instruction, enter “none” so your AI assistant won’t guess.
Advanced instructions
You can add exact cue words, planned pauses, overlap points, or intensity changes when your scene depends on tight timing.
Use this when
You use this before a self-tape rehearsal or recording session, especially when your reader hasn't seen the full sides.
You'll need
- Scene setup
- Characters and reader parts
- Cue timing
- Pace
- Interruptions and overlaps
- Emotional boundaries
- Eyeline position
- Off-camera lines
You'll get
- One send-ready brief that names every reader character, sets cue timing and pace, marks interruptions, protects your emotional boundaries, fixes the eyeline, and identifies every line that must stay off-camera.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One send-ready brief that names every reader character, sets cue timing and pace, marks interruptions, protects your emotional boundaries, fixes the eyeline, and identifies every line that must stay off-camera.
Examples
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