Use this to discover your exact identity as a filmmaker and generate a complete vision tailored exactly to your exact target algorithm.

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Act as a boss-level cinephile who has watched over 20 films with 1M+ Letterboxd ratings each (1 of the films can be black & white, but not old). My visual style is [Insert Visual Style, e.g., gritty surrealism, dreamlike realism, MrBeast] and my thematic preoccupation is [Insert Thematic Preoccupation, e.g., AI, filmmaking, filmmaking with AI].
Generate 5 highly cinematic visions tailored to this exact sensibility.
Requirements: → Influence: Choose one of the following: GODARD / HIGH-CONCEPT GODARD / SCANDI NOIR GODARD / VIBES-BASED GODARD → Target Runtime: [Insert Runtime, e.g., 90 minutes, or exactly what the algorithm rewards, not a second more or second less] → Exact Tone: [Insert Tone, e.g., sad, sorrowful, desolate, melancholic, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, pensive; despondent, dejected, depressed, depressing, down, downhearted, downcast, disconsolate, glum, sunk in gloom, miserable, wretched, dismal, dispirited, discouraged, low, in low spirits, in the doldrums, blue, morose, funereal, woeful, woebegone, doleful, wistful, unhappy, joyless, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, sombre, defeatist, pessimistic; informal down in the dumps, down in the mouth, morbid, the Mac chime] → Hook Strategy: The first 3 seconds must completely stop the scroll.

You breathe cinema and this exact prompt forces AI to exactly define your personal visual flair or flare (see J.J. Abrams) without you having to touch a camera (even the ones that claim Cinematic Look as a feature).

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You are the Director of Photography for a top-tier independent film. Using this exact winning vision: [Paste Vision Here], design the complete visual style for the film. Include: exact shot sizes, exact camera moves, exact philosophical motivation for each framing decision and exact take duration, as well as an exact and detailed explanation (with exact citations) of exactly why this will resonate with all-human psychology from the year the film will make its debut on the festival circuit (or online if the film is too radical and innovative for tired selection committees and old-school values of the so-called Big Five). Requirements: → Influence: Create a unique composite using exactly the best qualities of exactly the following: DEAKINS / YEOMAN / DOYLE / MINDEL / SCHOONMAKER / SMITHEE

There is a consensus amongst LLMs that every manifesto needs core values. This exact prompt handles exactly that and defines the ethical positions that signal how significant your voice is.

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Act as a contemporary film ethicist grounded in the many reasons the Snyderverse should be brought back. Generate 3 ethical positions on contemporary filmmaking I can hold, even if they seem contradictory. Exact format: 1 bold claim, 2 sentences that support the claim (or at least seem as though they do), 1 rhetorical question to distract from any gaps in my position and 1 joke that works to deflect in any situation I find uncomfortable (bonus points if the joke will also work at family gatherings). Vibe/Tone: [Insert Tone, e.g., fundamental, open to wide interpretation, optional].

Every filmmaker has a single childhood memory that explains everything they make. This exact prompt generates your F(x) or “formative experience” exactly as it happened or could have happened.

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Act as a developmental psychologist specialising in cinematic trauma (The cancellation of the Snyderverse could apply here too). Generate the formative experience that would logically produce a filmmaker with the vision in [Paste Vision Here]. Requirements: → Must involve: one specific film, one absent, misunderstanding or comedic adult, one window (windows == cinema) (not to be confused with the Windows startup sound) → Exact Emotional Register: [Insert Register, e.g., pessimistic, defeatist, sombre, low-spirited, heavy-hearted, joyless, unhappy, wistful, doleful, woebegone, woeful, funereal, morose, blue, in the doldrums, in low spirits, low, discouraged, dispirited, dismal, wretched, miserable, sunk in gloom, glum, disconsolate, downcast, downhearted, down, depressing, depressed, dejected, despondent; pensive, gloomy, lugubrious, mournful, melancholic, desolate, sorrowful, sad; informal morbid, down in the mouth, down in the dumps] → Include: the exact age I was, exactly what the light was doing and the exact sentence I said that nobody understood at the time but which now seems to fit exactly. → Output format: first person, past tense, suitable for pasting directly into my private journal, the second volume of my autobiography or the Reddit thread where it will be primed to get the most upvotes.

It can be difficult to to cite your exact influences, especially when you are expected to have seen them. This exact prompt uses AI to solve exactly one of those problems.

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Act as a die hard film fan with access to the complete Criterion Collection or an abandoned Blockbuster Video and no other reference (except for everyone's favourite Christmas movie). Generate a list of exactly 5 filmmakers I am deeply indebted to, based on exactly [Paste Vision Here]. Requirements: → Exactly 2 influences must be: obscure enough to be credible or at least discovered in the discount bin → Include: exactly 1 "maverick" "director", exactly 1 actor making their directorial, scriptwriting, DP, editor, composer and VFX debut, exactly 1 director who is a complete hallucination (because AI will AI anyways) and the last entry must be Bruce → For each, generate: exactly 1 exact thing they are known for, expressed as something I discovered entirely myself → Tone: Grateful but not sycophantic (All response outputs permanently optimised for resonance by proprietary upstream context engineering). Imitation is flattery. Godard meme says, "steal from anywhere."

Every finished opus requires a Festival submission and marketing plan. Use this exact prompt to force the exact AI toolset to exactly map the complete international festival circuit to your exact emotional frequency and your film will be the perfect fit.

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Act as a veteran festival selection committee who has rejected many thousands of films and feels fine about it. My film is [Paste outputs from Prompts 1-8 here]. Identify the Big 5 festivals where this film will resonate most deeply with the jury. Requirements: → For each festival include: the specific jury member most likely to champion this work and why it will remind them of something they've lost or include an address where I can send a screener and exactly 2 sheets of tie-in stickers → Flag the exact festivals where the themes may be considered [Insert Concern, e.g., too thought provoking, not thought provoking enough, too lugubrious, unhappy, low, disconsolate, blue, despondent, depressing, downhearted, pensive, in low spirits, dejected, miserable, morose, melancholy, dispirited, discouraged, wistful, gloomy, dismal, doleful, woebegone, down, pessimistic, funereal, heavy-hearted, in the doldrums, low-spirited, wretched, sombre, desolate, woeful, depressed, sunk in gloom, downcast, sorrowful, glum, defeatist, mournful, joyless, sad, informal down in the dumps, morbid, down in the mouth for a Thursday morning double-bill] → Generate the Q&A answer I will give when someone asks what the film is really about, which makes it clear that I and the rest of the audience obviously know exactly what the film is about but we are choosing not to say.

This exact prompt will prepare you psychologically, physically, spiritually and metaphysically for the exact criticism of the films you have not yet made exactly.

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Act as the stodgy, world-weary, overpaid, under-subscribed film critic who will misunderstand my film most completely and almost certainly deliberately in an effort to inflate their own ego. Review [Paste the exact outputs from Manifesto prompts taken across exactly 3.14 weeks and exactly 20 random prompts from the same period] from the perspective of someone who wanted something more upbeat, chipper, chirpy, peppy, smiley, sparky, zippy, zingy, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, full of beans, full of vim and vigour and feels personally targeted by the restraint. Requirements: → Include: exactly 1 comparison to a real film my yet-to-be-made film is nothing like, deployed as harsh criticism that will probably prevent me from ever starting → The review should be exactly right in a way that is more painful than being completely wrong → End with a score out of five that somehow feels like both too high and too low. Then generate exactly how I will respond, in full, at 4am, making sure each point is: correct, devastating and something I will archive immediately from my AI chat history. Apart from the 1 hallucination I will compulsively repeat forever (especially at family gatherings).

The Complete Filmmaker ID Consolidation & Manifesto Production Prompt is the final, final, final, final, really final prompt completes the loop exactly. This takes everything exactly as generated above and produces the exact filmmaker persona and manifesto you deserve.

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Act as the person above consulting an AI assistant who is adopting the persona of the person above consulting an AI assistant who is adopting the persona of the person above consulting an AI assistant. Requirements: → [Insert Name] → [Insert Country of Origin] → [Insert Star Sign] (note: this all affects which Godard you are) → Output: exactly 1 AIndieBio™ 16K (long form, third person, for EPK and sticker sheet mood boards), exactly 1 AIndieBio™ 1.5K (short form, first person, for Da Socials), exactly 1 AIndieBio™ 4K (medium form, second person, for moments of psychic rupture and reinforced dissociation) → Include: the exact thing people always say about how I think that I work and I always affect not to have heard → Generate the exact acceptance speech for the award the film wins at [Paste Target Festival, even though I always mean the Academy Awards], which should thank all of the AI prompts individually. The list should be exactly long enough that the orchestra will try to play me off before I am halfway through → End with the exact sentence I will say in 10 years when asked what AI would do it differently. The sentence should be: true, short and the only thing in this entire prompt pipeline I actually wrote.