{
 "slug": "location-plate",
 "name": "Location plate",
 "category": "setting",
 "group": "Building a place",
 "media": [
  "image"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "An empty, consistent place that every shot of the job can reuse.",
 "use_when": "Any scene shot in more than one generation.",
 "phrase": "the empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Make several candidates and pick one; the plate is then a reference in every later job.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "real-location-regrade",
  "establishing-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/setting/location-plate",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/setting/location-plate.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: the empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept."
 },
 "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."
 }
}