The inner line, silent shots only

One short thought the character has and never says, written as direction.

The inner line. Option: use it when the shot is silent, with no speech and no speaking plate [single strong source]. Write one short thought, never in quotation marks ("Inner line, never spoken: the bus has already left").

• Never in a shot with speech, and never on a sound-off speaking plate (a shot where the actor mouths a recorded line with the sound off), where the model may mouth it.

• The prompt also states that nothing outside quotation marks is spoken (see Video with Seedance → The prompt grammar).

Why: Caine's "thought recognition": a thought arrives before the words do. The inner line gives the face that thought to have.

Sources

• Higgsfield's The Cully Hill Boys (one unspoken inner line); Michael Caine, Acting in Film (book notes); Judith Weston (subtext).