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Single Character Walk Shot | Follow-Along Exercise

Practice planning a single character walk shot: start from concrete inputs, then complete, check and save your own version step by step.

O que você vai criar

A storyboard or production plan, an asset list and a check log; you'll need to produce the final video yourself.

Você vai precisar

  • A chat, image or video tool suited to the task (PromptKite does not provide model credits)
  • Your own input materials and a folder for saving results

Passos

  1. Define the inputs for this exercise

    The demo inputs for this exercise are: Topic: a little rabbit in a yellow scarf walking toward a tree; Duration: 5 seconds. First confirm whether these conditions fit your situation; replace “paste your material” in the example with real material. Write the goal as a deliverable you can check against.

  2. Run it once for your scenario

    First give the example prompt to a chat tool to get a storyboard or production plan. After checking the timing, mark each shot as live footage, still-image editing or video generation, then prepare assets; copying once won't produce a finished video. Focus of this task: first lock the character's ears, outfit and proportions, use a fixed side-on camera, and complete only a few slow steps.

  3. Check against the criteria and revise

    Check each shot against “Number of limbs, foot sliding and costume changes; check whether the duration and shots are achievable.” If a movement is hard to achieve, drop secondary camera moves first and keep one main action; if the timing is off, fix the schedule before making assets, rather than padding with unrelated shots.

  4. Save and review

    Save the final result, the prompt, the source of your input material and one reason for a change. Name files with the date plus the task name; save reusable versions to your PromptKite Prompt Pocket. Next time, change one condition and try again, noting whether the result still holds.

Erros comuns

  • The input is still placeholder text, so the output looks empty — Replace placeholders such as “paste your material” in the example with real material; state clearly that missing facts are unknown instead of asking the model to fill them in.
  • The result doesn't meet the standard for this scenario — Check each shot against “Number of limbs, foot sliding and costume changes; check whether the duration and shots are achievable.” If a movement is hard to achieve, drop secondary camera moves first and keep one main action; if the timing is off, fix the schedule before making assets, rather than padding with unrelated shots.

Modelo de prática

Create a video plan around {subject}, with a duration of 5 seconds. First lock the character's ears, outfit and proportions, use a fixed side-on camera, and complete only a few slow steps. Describe the feet contacting the ground, the shifting center of gravity and the scarf swaying slightly; avoid talking, turning and jumping at the same time, and give a simplified fallback of subtle standing movement if it fails. Output an actionable table with shot number, timing, shot size, main action, camera movement, captions or sound, and assets to prepare; for a shoot plan, distinguish shooting time from final video length. Keep only one main motion per generated shot, and describe its start and end states. Don't invent actual shooting or generation results; clearly list any missing reference assets. Finally, provide a pre-publication checklist and a simplified fallback if it doesn't work.

This page is an original follow-along exercise; the full workflow has not yet been tested end to end. The cover is a task card, not a generated result or finished work.