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title: What went wrong
summary: Every failure in the film's record, as what you see, why it happened, and the rule that came out of it.
order: 8
---

# What went wrong

Each row comes from the film's generation log and its record of what went wrong. The table shape is borrowed from claudia.gallery's [What went wrong](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/failures/), which has many more rows from seven films and is worth reading before you spend anything.

## Him

| What you see | Why | The rule now |
|---|---|---|
| All his hair comes back blue | some takes dyed every loc, not just one | A tied-back hair ref on the shots that build or fix him, and the line "Only ONE single loc is bright blue, at the front left. All his other hair stays black." |
| He turns to the camera while driving | the model keeps turning him toward the lens | Make an edited still where he watches the road and she watches him, and use it as the start frame. |
| He looks into the lens in a b-roll shot | not recorded | Every b-roll prompt says his eyes never turn toward the camera. |

## Lip sync

| What you see | Why | The rule now |
|---|---|---|
| The rapped words come out wrong and about 3 seconds late | Seedance can't lip sync to a song: with the song as an audio reference it kept the beat but dropped the vocal and rapped its own words | Generate the shot silent, then run Sync Lip Sync 3 on the finished clip. |
| The first word is missed or mumbled | not recorded | Start each rapped clip with a still half second, and say so in the prompt: "For the first half second he is silent, then he raps these exact words." |
| Claudia's face needs its own sync | she shares the rooftop close-up | Crop her face, sync it on its own, and lay it back in with a feathered mask. |

## Cars

| What you see | Why | The rule now |
|---|---|---|
| Doors open the wrong way, two doors merge into one, people pass through cars | the model doesn't know how the doors work | A door-closed still and a door-open still as the start and end frames, and the wording "Locked-off tripod shot. Parked, engine off, wheels still. The door is hinged at the windscreen pillar and swings forward, up and outward in one arc." Only the door in use opens. |
| The car warps as it moves | moving cars warp | Never write "pulls up", "drives in" or "speeds off". Every car is parked unless the shot is the car itself. |

## The cut

| What you see | Why | The rule now |
|---|---|---|
| Claudia looks into the camera at the start of a shot | the clip opens on her looking at the lens | Trim the first 1.5 seconds in the edit (shot 21). |
| A shot starts too early after a long one | not recorded | Trim the head of the clip in the edit (shot 22 loses its first 0.33 seconds). |
| Text, tickers or logos turn up in frame | not recorded | "No text, no logos" in every prompt, and in the check before a still feeds a video. |

## Spending

Three shots (the watch, the moon over the tower, the 4am terrace) came from the Leave The Lights On shoot at no extra cost. Check what you already have before you generate.