Teardown — Australia Lost a War Against Emus (Free Sample): 10 cuts, film + clips + every prompt

Every AI video tutorial shows you the prompt that worked. This shows you all 10, including the dull ones.

One published wildlife documentary — a short-form episode — opened up. The finished film, all 10 generated clips, the 10 stills they were animated from, and for each of the 10 cuts the exact still prompt and motion prompt that produced it, beside the engine tier it was ordered on.

Watch the published cut before you buy: https://youtu.be/3N_Xo-A7apY

Why this genre is worth taking apart

Animals are where identity drift shows first. A prompt that names the species loosely gives you a hyena in cut nine.

Every still prompt here carries a species lock written as a positive count — ear shape, coat pattern, toe count — never as a list of things the animal must not be.

What is in the package

• The finished film, as published
• 10 generated clips — the raw shots before the edit
• 10 source stills — the frames each clip was animated from
• PROMPTS.md — one block per cut: framing, tier, still prompt, motion prompt
• production.json — the same record, machine-readable

The routing, in this episode

Cut split: 2 on tier 1, 8 on tier 2. Tier is assigned before a cut is ordered, and it decides the engine. A static shot on the expensive engine is pure waste; a hard-motion shot on the cheap one costs more, because the re-order costs more than the correct order would have.

What the episode argues

1932년 호주군은 40일간 9,860발을 쏘고 에뮤 986마리만 잡아 사실상 패배했는데, 에뮤가 이긴 이유는 강해서가 아니라 총성이 울리면 뭉치지 않고 소규모로 흩어지는 습성 때문이었다. 기관총은 밀집 대형을 전제로 만든 무기다.

Three things you can read straight off the prompts

• Identity is locked with a positive count, never a negation — a forbidden thing tends to get summoned.
• Framing is stated as what fills the frame, not as a shot-size name. Shot-size vocabulary is interpreted loosely by every engine we have measured.
• Subject, action and environment are separate lines in the motion prompt. Collapsing them into one sentence is where drift starts.

Honest notice

• The narration and on-screen text are Korean. Every prompt and all documentation is in English — the prompts are the transferable part.
• Clips are re-encoded for download, not delivered at master bitrate. They are reference and working copies.
• You may use these files in your own commercial and personal work, including client work, and modify them freely. You may not resell or redistribute the package itself, in whole or in part, as a product — including uploading the clips to a stock library.
• This is a record of what one episode took, not a guarantee of a result. Generation models change behaviour between versions, sometimes reversing it, so treat the routing as a procedure you can re-measure rather than a fixed ranking.

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Where this sits

• AI Video Prompt Craft — $29 — the pack this extract is taken from: the full prompt grammar and the routing rules behind it
• The Prompt Atlas — $49 — 1,297 prompts that ordered real cuts, indexed by shot job
• The whole catalogue — teardowns, references, skill packs and free calculators, with what each one is for