Direct a cinematic AI car commercial: Direct dialogue through selection

2026-08-10 · Academy lesson · Adil · recording, 3:28 · original

Topic: Video generation & shot direction (also: Prompting & AI assistants, Failure modes & fixes, Assets, references & consistency) · mode: Tutorial · tags: course chapter, series, one creator's experience, fiction

Adil directs the dialogue of scene two of his car commercial through selection: Claude splits a beat-by-beat request into two prompts, he stitches the scene from shots of four generations, slows the disguise removal, reuses the acting of an earlier prompt and switches from the disguise sheet to the clean hero.

Part of another source

This recording is almost entirely part of How I Built a Car Commercial With AI (Every Prompt I Used) (2026-08-03); what is said in it is covered on that page.

What is said

• 00:00:00 — The beat-by-beat dialogue request to Claude, split in two; references auto-attached
• 00:00:31 — Stitching the dialogue from four generations; the mirror shot, the mustache and glasses shots; slowing the disguise removal
• 00:02:08 — The rest of scene two: reused acting, the clean hero reference, the pedal and the girl's reaction
• 00:03:04 — Scene two played in full

Threads in this video

• restate · How do you direct a multi-shot sequence? — Knowing his beat-by-beat dialogue request was a lot for one generation, Adil added one line at its end, "If this is too much for one prompt, split it in two", and Claude split it. (00:00:00)
• restate · How do you keep a location, product or prop the same across shots? — In the dialogue prompt, the image one reference is the parked-car screenshot from the statics video (the position lock) and car wheel two is the steering-wheel screenshot; both attached automatically when Adil pasted the prompt. (00:00:00)
• restate · When a generation fails, should you generate more takes, fix the prompt or start over? — Watching the scene together, Adil found the disguise removal too fast for a funny scene that needed breathing room before full action mode, so he asked Claude for that edit. (00:01:25)
• refine · How do you direct a character's acting in a video prompt? — Describing the rest of scene two in Claude, Adil references the acting from the previous prompt, which turned out well, to reuse it. (00:02:08)
• restate · How do you keep a character the same across shots? — Once the hero's disguise is off, Adil drops the disguise sheet: from that shot on the prompts reference the clean hero, with no mustache. (00:02:08)

Mentioned

Central: Adil's AI car commercial

Also: character sheet · Claude · position lock · statics video

Only in the description or credits: Direct a cinematic AI car commercial · Higgsfield Academy

Also centred on Adil's AI car commercial: How I Built a Car Commercial With AI (Every Prompt I Used) · Cinematic Car Commercial — Full Breakdown · Direct a cinematic AI car commercial: Correct performance one variable at a time · Direct a cinematic AI car commercial: Cast and clean the plate · Direct a cinematic AI car commercial: Plan around reusable assets · Direct a cinematic AI car commercial: Assemble a scene from locked references

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