{
 "slug": "real-location-regrade",
 "name": "Real location, same grade",
 "category": "setting",
 "group": "Building a place",
 "media": [
  "image"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "A real place, made to match the look of the film without changing what is in it.",
 "use_when": "Shooting a real shop or office and matching it to the job's look.",
 "phrase": "this photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A list of what stays is what the model holds on to; without it props move or vanish.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Rourke Heath (8 Aug 2026) via Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "location-plate",
  "global-look-block"
 ],
 "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/real-location-regrade",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/setting/real-location-regrade.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. This photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. This photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: this photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. This photograph, in the same environment with the same colour grade as the look reference, nothing added and nothing removed, followed by a list of the props that stay."
 },
 "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."
 }
}