film-character-sheet
Installation
SKILL.md
Character Sheet (stage 2)
Why
A video model reinvents a person on every generation unless it is handed one clean reference of that person from the angles it will need. The three-panel sheet (front / back / headshot) is the minimum that lets the model hold face, hair, proportions and outfit across dozens of unrelated shots. It also fixes the voice: dialogue models derive a voice from the look, so a locked sheet is a locked voice.
Decision: who needs a sheet?
Ask, for each person in the script: would a viewer notice if this person's face, hair or clothes changed between two shots?
| Person | Sheet? | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Main cast (hero, therapist, keeper, kid) | yes | appears across cuts; any drift is visible |
| Hero in a second wardrobe (match kit) | yes — variant | same face must survive a full outfit change; the model won't do it from text |
| Hero at another age (7 y.o.) | yes — aged variant | resemblance must read; derived from the adult sheet |
| Featured one-off (old fan in close-up) | no sheet, but a full text description + identity-isolation clause | appears once; description is enough; the risk is face leakage from the hero reference |
| Background (crowd, teammates, referee) | no | nobody tracks them |
| Anyone wearing a distinctive item that must persist (a brooch, a scarf with a crest) | item gets a prop sheet even if the person doesn't | the item is the identity |