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lighting-continuity-design

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Use for lighting mood design, contrast control, shot-to-shot lighting continuity, and visual tone consistency across sequences.

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Lighting Continuity Design

Use this skill for mood + continuity, not just pretty light adjectives.

Source Basis

  • StudioBinder lighting ratio guide.

Ratio Heuristics

  • 1:1 to 2:1: soft, open, calm, commercial, flattering
  • 4:1: dramatic but readable
  • 8:1 and above: severe, moody, foreboding, oppressive

Rules

  • Keep lighting ratio logic stable across adjacent shots unless the story beat intentionally changes mood.
  • Track key direction, fill behavior, rim presence, and practical light motivation.
  • Match material response to the chosen contrast level.
  • If the scene is ash-grey and backlit, do not suddenly make it glossy daylight-clean in the next shot.

Prompting Heuristics

  • describe light direction
  • describe shadow density
  • describe practical motivation
  • describe atmospheric medium: haze, smoke, dust, rain, mist

Continuity Failures To Block

  • unexplained switch from hard backlight to flat frontal light
  • palette shift without narrative cause
  • inconsistent eye-light or silhouette logic for the same sequence