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Directing Sora 2 like a DP: the vocabulary that actually moves the model
Why "cinematic" is the worst word in your prompt, and what to write instead. With shot-by-shot examples.
If your Sora 2 prompts still start with "cinematic shot of...", you're losing the model. "Cinematic" is the most overtrained word in the system. Here is the vocabulary we use in our flagship Video program instead.
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