The pipeline

Stage 02 · Nano Banana

Cinematography, resolved one frame at a time.

Each shot-list entry becomes a graded still: correct aspect, correct key light, correct subject scale. These frames are the keyframes the motion stage animates.

Native ratio

16:9 and 9:16 masters

Delivery

Per-beat still set

Grade

Shared LUT per episode

Reference

Continuity keys from stage 01

01

Lighting and lens discipline

Prompts are assembled from the shot entry rather than free text: key and fill relationship, practical sources, haze density, focal-length character and depth of field. The result reads as a photographed frame instead of an illustration, because the parameters describe a camera setup rather than a mood.

  • Motivated key light — every source exists in the scene
  • Depth cues staged in three planes for parallax in stage 05
  • Negative space reserved where lower-thirds and captions land
02

Continuity across a sequence

Recurring subjects, locations and palettes carry continuity keys from the blueprint, so a subject introduced in a wide shot survives into its close-up. Sequences are rendered as sets, never as isolated images, which is what stops the visual drift typical of prompt-by-prompt generation.

03

One grade per episode

A single grade intent is applied across the whole still set: contrast curve, colour temperature, highlight rolloff and film-grain weight. The episode therefore looks like one production rather than thirty separate renders stitched together.