ScreenWeaver Editorial Team

Veo Prompts: The Cinematic Quality Settings That Matter in Veo 3.1

Veo 3.1 prompts that hold up: pick settings first (1080p and 4K mean 8 seconds), write one moment per clip, give sound its own sentences, and keep dialogue off the screen.

Seedance Prompts: What Seedance 2.5 Actually Rewards

Seedance 2.5 prompts that work: bind every asset by number, write one summary line, time beats in whole seconds, and keep negatives for subtitles and audio only.

Negative Prompts for AI Video: Kill the AI Look Without Fighting the Model

Which video models have a negative prompt field, how to name the defect you see, why you write nouns instead of orders, and where the fix goes when the field is missing.

Character Consistency Prompts: What the Text Should Say When the Image Holds the Face

How to write the character part of an AI video prompt: bind the reference image, describe only what it cannot show, freeze one identity line and cut the words that move the face.

Film Stock and Grade Prompts for AI Video: Kodak, Noir, Teal-Orange

Why a stock name or grade label rarely sets the look of an AI video shot, and what to write instead: the light sources, color balance, black level, saturation and grain.

Lens Prompts for AI Video: 24mm vs 50mm vs 85mm Looks

Why a focal length alone rarely changes an AI video shot, and what to write instead: camera distance, background size, depth of field, a table from 14mm to anamorphic.

ScreenWeaver Guide: Everything You Can Do, From Script to Film

How to use ScreenWeaver, step by step: write or import a script, build reference sheets, storyboard in 3D previz, then generate AI video on a node canvas.

How to Make an AI Character Sheet That Holds Every Shot

An AI character sheet only keeps a face if every shot uses it. Write a filmable description, make one four-view sheet, then reference it in every shot.

Moodboard vs Storyboard vs Production: What Each One Does

Moodboard vs storyboard vs production: what each stage answers, what goes in, what comes out, and the classic mistakes, shown on one AI film scene.

Consistent Locations and Props in AI Video: The Method

Keep the same set and props in every AI video shot: make places and objects story elements, write filmable descriptions, reuse one sheet, cite them with @.

AI Previz: Turn a Script Into a 3D Blocking Storyboard

AI previz turns your script into a 3D blocking storyboard: framing, staging, light and timing locked before video. A step-by-step guide to the Storyboard tab.

How to Change the Camera Angle of an AI Image

Move the camera around an AI image without redoing it: ScreenWeaver's Angle, Edit and Crop tools, tested on a real storyboard panel, failures included.

Node-Based AI Video Production: The Canvas, Explained

A node canvas for AI video that your storyboard wires for you: art direction, characters, shots, Image and Video nodes, Seedance 2.5, safety nets and credits.

Multi-Shot AI Video: Generate a Whole Scene in One Clip

Generate a whole scene as one multi-shot AI video: a ScreenWeaver pipeline films every shot in a single 4 to 30 s Seedance 2.5 clip, same faces, same light.

AI Screenplay Editor: Write or Import a Script, Then Board It

Write a screenplay in industry format for free, or import a PDF or Final Draft file with the AI assistant. Your storyboard and production then read the same script.

Shot Size Prompts for AI Video: Why Your Close-Up Comes Out Medium

Why a video model ignores the shot size you asked for, and how to fix it: cut points, what to leave out of the frame, start frames, and a table from extreme wide to insert.

AI in Documentaries: How to Use Reconstructions Without Losing Trust

Five uses of AI in documentary ranked by risk, what the Archival Producers Alliance asks for, an AI cue sheet, on-screen labels, YouTube and EU AI Act rules, and why keeping one face per reconstructed person is an honesty tool.

How to Make a Documentary with AI: From Sourced Script to Finished Film

Subject, sources, treatment, V.O. script, shot list, reference sheets, reconstruction shots, narration, edit and disclosure: the full workflow for an AI documentary that holds up, with a long section on keeping the same face on a witness across every shot and every decade.

AI Documentary Narration: How to Get a Voice-Over That Sounds Like a Real Narrator

Write narration for the ear, know when to stay silent, time every line to picture before you board it, pick one narrator voice for a whole series, then record a human or generate the voice without cloning anyone. Worked through on The Last Keeper, a lighthouse reconstruction made in ScreenWeaver.

How to Make AI History Documentaries for YouTube That Stay Monetized

What YouTube's inauthentic content policy really says, why topic-to-video tools put a history channel at risk, and a production method that counts as original work: sourced research, narration you wrote, a recurring character with the same face in every episode, a storyboard, an anachronism checklist and honest labels.

How to Make 3D Animation With AI: The Method (+ Real Example)

Script, turnaround sheet, a materials and lighting plate, grey layout storyboard, shot-by-shot generation: the full method for a studio-quality 3D animation look with AI, shown on a real five-shot scene from grey board to final frame, with a long section on keeping the same character in every shot.

How to Make AI Claymation: The Method (+ Real Example)

Reference sheet, a plate for plasticine and fingerprints, a miniature set, boards, one small action per shot, then the step most guides skip: retiming the motion to 12 poses per second, like real stop motion. The full method for AI claymation, shown on Bertie, an original clay mole baker, and on one real shot in three takes, including the one we got wrong.

How to Make AI Horror Videos: The Method (+ Real Example)

Script with its sounds, reference sheets for the victim and the creature, grey previz storyboard, then many empty shots and a few short threat shots that never show the whole monster: the full method for AI horror that actually scares, shown on a real six-shot scene from grey board to final frame, with a long section on keeping faces, creatures and blood consistent from shot to shot.

How to Make an AI Cartoon: The Method (+ Real Example)

A one-page series bible, one model sheet per character, a flat-colour style plate, a grey storyboard, then every shot generated with the sheet attached: the full method for making a 2D cartoon with AI, shown on Mila's Delivery, six shots and 12 seconds, with a long chapter on keeping a character on model in every shot.