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Consistent rooms for an AI micro drama: locations, variants and Multishot

Draw a location once, make the other rooms of the same home from it, then write a dialogue scene as a Multishot panel, voice the lines and render. Built on Blood Child, a Nollywood micro drama.

Draw the cast and the main room

Draws TWO images — a portrait and a full body — at 4 cr each on Nano Banana 2 — 1Open Cast and, on each character, pick a still model and press Still ×2. It draws a portrait and a full body (4 cr each on Nano Banana 2), so the face stays the same in every shot.

Apply — 2Ask the OMNI assistant to write the location, e.g. "generate a prompt for the small cramped apartment". It answers with an Add location card. Press Apply.

Lagos Apartment Needs still STILL MODEL Default · Seedream Seedream · 5 cr Nano… — 3Open Locations from the left toolbar. The new Lagos Apartment shows "Needs still": it has no picture yet, and every shot set there takes its look from this still.

Generate a new still from the description — nano-3.1 — 4Pick a STILL MODEL on the card and press Generate. Nano Banana 2 (4 cr) is quick and cheap for rooms.

Lagos Apartment STILL MODEL Default · Seedream Seedream · 5 cr Nano Banana 2 ·… — 5The still appears on the card with its @slug (@lagos_apartment). Use that slug in a scene and the room is sent to the video model as a reference.

Make the other rooms from the first

Create a different version — 6To add another room of the same home, open the location and press Create a different version.

Look only — 7Describe the change ("Generate the bedroom") and set REFERENCE INFLUENCE to Look only. You get a new view of the same place that matches its look, not its framing.

Generate preview · 4 cr — 8Press Generate preview · 4 cr.

Approve & save — 9Check the new picture. Under KEEP IT AS choose New location, name it (Lagos Apartment Bedroom) and press Approve & save.

Lagos Apartment Bedroom STILL MODEL Default · Seedream Seedream · 5 cr Nano Ban… — 10The bedroom is now its own location with its own @slug, and the living room stays as it was.

Set up the scene and its frame

[+ Add scene] — 11Go to the Script tab and press + Add scene.

Ask about your screenplay, or paste an image for a better prompt... (Enter to s… — 12Ask the Script Assistant to stage the scene: who sits where in @lagos_apartment and how the camera frames them. It writes the visual prompt for you.

Generate frame — 13Press Generate frame to draw the scene's opening picture from the visual prompt and its references.

▬ Landscape 16:9 — 14For a landscape video, go to Settings and set ORIENTATION to Landscape 16:9 before you draw any more frames.

Generate frame — 15Back in Scene Flow, press Generate frame again so the master shot is redrawn in the new shape.

Write the scene as a Multishot panel

Add multishot — 16Press + Add multishot. A multishot is one take with cuts inside it, up to 30 s on Wan 3.0.

What happens, with @slugs. Dialogue in quotes after the speaker: @chloe turns t… — 17Each beat is one camera setup. Write what happens using @slugs for people and places; dialogue goes in quotes after the speaker.

Lagos Apartment @lagos_apartment — 18Type @ to pick from your library. Name the location in the first beat, here @lagos_apartment, so the set is sent as a reference.

Add beat — 19Press + Add beat for the next camera setup. The tags under each beat show who is in it and which lines they speak.

What happens, with @slugs. Dialogue in quotes after the speaker: @chloe turns t… — 20Put each line in quotes after its speaker: @kwame_bakare_daily_wear says "Work is slowing". Each quoted line becomes a voice line.

What happens, with @slugs. Dialogue in quotes after the speaker: @chloe turns t… — 21Watch for warnings like "~6 s of speech in a 5 s beat". The line would be cut off or rushed, so make the beat longer or the line shorter.

Voice the lines and render

Voice lines — 22In the VIDEO tab, VOICE LINES lists every line in the panel. Press Voice lines to record them all in each character's voice.

Play all — 23Press Play all to hear the takes in order before you spend anything on video.

RENDER — 24Press RENDER. The voiced lines go to the model with the cast and room references.

Step 25 — 25While it renders, open PROMPT to read what is sent: the beats are assembled into one timed sequence with hard cuts, set in @lagos_apartment.

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