Location Plate (stage 3)

Why

The plate tells the model what the place looks like, how big it is, and where things sit. It is a reference for look, materials, scale and layout — never a keyframe. Every shot prompt says so explicitly, because otherwise the model copies the plate's composition (its emptiness, its angle) into a scene that needs people in chairs or a full stadium.

Two rules that do most of the work

1. "3/4 angle" in every plate prompt. Straight-on, walls compress into a flat backdrop and the model has no depth cues; at three-quarters two walls are visible and the model reads real distances between chairs, table, window. Every batch the course ran with this phrase came back with depth; none without.
2. Palette and mood are decided here, in words, not in post. Warm/cold, time of day, weather, and named colours ("cold floodlight white, muted turf green — never neon —, deep blue-black sky"). Genre picks the default (film-direction §2). Vague mood words produce nothing pickable.

And the third, from the failure list: state furniture and object counts ("exactly two chairs"). An unlocked count is how a third chair appears.

Contrast between intercut locations

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