Your take log

Every attempt, kept or not, gets an entry before the next one runs.

Where it lives:

• one log file per stage folder per round (Videos, Character Sheets, Location Sheets, Frames and so on). Your shot plan's shot list links each take to its entry and never copies it;

• a rejected sheet or still is not kept, but its log entry stays; so does the entry of every take moved to Archive.

What each folder holds is in The stages and gates → Project files and folders; the earlier takes stacked under each approved take are in Editing → The editable timeline.

Each log opens with the round, the stage, the approved budget and date, and a list of words the model misreads, each with the replacement that worked. Costs are in Higgsfield credits (cr).

## {take or asset}, {date and time}
- Shot / asset: {plan number, scene}; batch {sample | production n}; take {n}; keeper so far: {yes | no}
- Goal: {the plan's intent in one line}
- Tool and method: {model}, {mode}, {references only | start frame | start and end}
- Settings: {duration}, {aspect}, {draft | 1080p}, {audio on | off}
- References, in order: {file → role line}; frames: {file, how it was made}
- Prompt: {the full text sent, the changed block marked}
- Cost: quoted {cr}, charged {cr}; job {id}
- Result: {file in its folder | not kept}
- Review: {camera measurement}; {tool report before the finish}; {full-size checks: face, hands, label}; notes as "I saw ___, so I would ___"
- Diagnosis: {symptom}; level {1 references | 2 structure | 3 camera | 4 style and audio | roll | platform}; cause {…}
- Next: {the one change} | keeper: in {s}, out {s} | to the batch review: {reason}
- Spent on this shot: {cr} of {expected} / {ceiling}

When a project resumes after a pause, read the project files, then the newest logs.

Sources

• This Guide's folder layout (see The stages and gates → Project files and folders).