{
 "slug": "accent-five-fields",
 "name": "Accent in five fields",
 "category": "expression",
 "group": "Direction rules",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Voices that sound like a place and a person, not a cartoon.",
 "use_when": "Any generated dialogue with an accent or a regional voice.",
 "phrase": "speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Without the closing line the model plays the accent for laughs.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Dan Kieft (1 Sep 2026) via Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "three-layers-per-line"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Rules from Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/accent-five-fields",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/expression/accent-five-fields.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. Speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Speaker: older man; region: Antwerp; pace: unhurried; energy: low; state: amused; then the line; natural, not exaggerated, not a comedy voice. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}