Internal start and end frames

A frame is made only where the method column of your shot plan names one, after the client approves the anchors. It is internal: never shown to the client, never reused as a presentation image. A face alone is never a reason for a frame.

Sourcing (decided): every frame is generated fresh from the approved sheets:

• face, body and wardrobe from the character sheets and the identity close-up;

• environment and light from the location plates;

• objects from the prop sheets and the client's product photos.

• A frame from a take or a screenshot is never the frame itself. A screenshot of an approved take, the previous take's last frame or a location screenshot may join only to guide composition (framing, camera or fisheye, pose, prop handling), with a role line taking nothing else: no face, clothing, light, texture or look.

• A storyboard is never attached, the client's or your own. Read it and write what it shows in words.

How it is written: posed mid-action, at the delivery ratio, at 2K (4K where a label reads); positions by screen side and depth; camera height, distance, angle and lens; the plate's light rewritten for the angle; the film's look block. Start and end frames of one shot show the same world (look, light, hair, product), except a designed change of world the treatment asked for. A speaking shot's start frame shows the lips shut and an easy, unstrained face. Write it in the still-prompt order, the context first and edge control after the frame inventory (see Still prompts, storyboard frames and diagrams → The still-prompt structure).

Check it at full size against the identity close-up: it becomes the clip's literal first or last frame. Which shots need one: Video with Seedance → The six start-frame cases.

Sources

• PJ Accetturo (newsletter) (frames by exception).