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Cinematic grammar for AI video

The 9-Cell Shot Matrix

Nine named shots, two axes. Learn the grid in 30 minutes, then choose from it when you prompt an AI video model β€” instead of improvising.

AI video tools collapse without specificity. "Make me a wide shot" is a coin toss; "50mm neutral observer, locked-off, establishing" is repeatable. The grid is the controlled vocabulary that makes prompts repeatable.

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