Prop sheets and detail locks

Only hero props get a sheet: the ones that are handled, passed, carry a gag or motivate a transition.

Hero props only [proven]. Background props live in the plate; emblems and symbols get their own sheet; always-carried props go on the character sheet.

• Two or three panels on light grey, same scale and ground line: front, back, three-quarter; for a device, the screen side, back and three-quarter.

• Write the design once: material, colour, size against a hand, markings, wear, and the features it lacks. Unbranded unless the treatment says otherwise; any text follows Photoreal anchors (Nano Banana Pro) → Products and labels. Screens are generated blank or dark; their content is composited.

• Orientation rules (which side faces the camera, "never duplicated") belong in the video prompt.

Detail locks. Option: use it when your shot plan (see Planning, budgets and takes) names it for a hero detail, or after a detail drifts [single strong source]. Name one in the plan when a small detail must not drift, such as an emblem, a dial or a wheel hub. That detail gets its own close-up reference, named with every shot where it shows.

Position images. Option: use it when a position or path is critical, or after a spatial failure [single strong source]. A position image is a diagram of where an object stands, a path or a size against a person, made in GPT Image like every staging map (decided; see Still prompts, storyboard frames and diagrams → Staging maps, position images, scale sketches).

{Image 1 is {source}: it gives {the design}.} A prop sheet: {two | three} studio photos of the same {prop}, side by side on light-grey seamless, 16:9. {Size in cm and against a hand}. {Material, colour, finish, wear}. {Markings}. It has no {features it lacks}. On the left, {view}; in the centre, {view}; on the right, {view}. Same scale and ground line, soft even light, one soft contact shadow under each view. No hands, no other objects, no text.

Example: the kiosk owner's kettle

A prop sheet: three studio photos of the same tea kettle, side by side on light-grey seamless, 16:9. A squat brass kettle 18 cm tall, about as wide as an open hand, with a short curved spout and a high arched handle wrapped in a strip of faded red cloth. The belly is polished bright where it is gripped and dull and darkened low down from years on a gas flame; a shallow dent the size of a coin sits on the left of the belly; the lid has a black wooden knob with a chip out of one side. No engraving, no pattern, no logo. On the left, the front with the spout pointing left and the dent facing the camera; in the centre, the back, the cloth-wrapped handle square-on; on the right, a three-quarter view at about 40 degrees from slightly above. Same scale and ground line, soft even light, one soft contact shadow under each view. No hands, no other objects, no text.

Sources

• Higgsfield's The Cully Hill Boys and Higgsfield Academy (detail locks); Listen to Meh by @nue_nue (project) (prop sheets in several views).