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AI Short Film – Full Prompt Library (YouTube video)

2026-03-12 · blog how-to · Higgsfield · watch on YouTube

Topic: Video generation & shot direction (also: Assets, references & consistency) · mode: Tutorial · tags: prompts shared, fiction

Higgsfield's blog publishes the full prompt library behind its AI short film, in production order: characters, then locations, then three scenes in the locker room, the patrol car and the surprise. Its main advice is to build a reference sheet for each character before any scene so the characters look the same in every shot; the Nano Banana Pro prompt turns one photo into four full-body views and three close-up portraits.

What is said

  • Scene 3. The Surprise

What is said

★ — how much it matters to the source.

  • ★★ Higgsfield says it made a cinematic short film, published on YouTube, entirely with its own tools, and breaks down the prompts, process and tools behind it. · Higgsfield AI
  • ★★★ Higgsfield advises creating a reference sheet for each character before generating any scenes, so the characters look the same in every shot. · character sheet · also in: $350.000 AI Commercial - Full Prompts, World’s First Ever K-Pop AI Series Using Seedance 2.0 (Zephyr Breakdown), Cinema Studio Prompt Guide: 100+ Camera, Lighting and Motion Prompts That Actually Work
  • ★★ For the film's lead, the cop Adil, Higgsfield used Soul ID to keep his face consistent across the film, and reminds to train the Soul ID on your own images first. · Soul ID, Adil
  • ★★ Higgsfield made the film's character portraits in Soul Cinema from short prompts such as "A close up of an American policeman" and "A close up of a woman in her mid-twenties". · Soul Cinema
  • ★★★ Higgsfield's character-sheet prompt for Nano Banana Pro turns one reference photo into a turnaround on a neutral background: four full-body views (front, both profiles, back) above three close-up portraits, relaxed A-pose. · character sheet, Nano Banana Pro
  • ★★ Higgsfield advises generating a film's key locations once, locking them in and referencing them throughout, like the characters. · location reference sheet · also in: $350.000 AI Commercial - Full Prompts
  • ★★ Higgsfield's location-sheet prompt for Nano Banana Pro gives a frontal view, two angled perspectives and a reverse wide view above three close-ups of key details, so every shot in the space stays consistent. · location reference sheet, Nano Banana Pro
  • ★★ For a realistic patrol-car interior in Soul Cinema, Higgsfield adds a cheap surveillance-camera look to the prompt: "DVR/security camera aesthetic", "cheap wide-angle lens distortion", "mild compression artifacts", "low dynamic range". · Soul Cinema
  • ★★ In Cinema Studio shot prompts, Higgsfield tags each character and location with an @ reference (such as @Adil-Cop, @Locker-Room) and then describes the action. · Cinema Studio, Adil
  • ★★ For dialogue in Cinema Studio, Higgsfield writes each line in quotation marks inside the shot prompt, after the speaking character's name or @ reference and often a delivery cue such as "replies dryly". · Cinema Studio

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Mentioned

Central: Adil's police birthday short film · Cinema Studio · Soul Cinema

Also: Adil · character sheet · Dave · location reference sheet · Nano Banana Pro · Selena · Soul ID

Also centred on Adil's police birthday short film: The Complete AI Short Film Workflow Everyone's Missing

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