Teardown — They Stopped a Mail Train With a Fake Red Signal: 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 incident reconstruction — 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/KQA2b_D6LHI

Why this genre is worth taking apart

Reconstruction is the one genre where the footage has to look plain. Anything cinematic reads as invention.

Note how restrained the prompts are, and how much work goes into holding a location consistent across cuts that were generated independently.

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: 4 on tier 1, 6 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

1963년 영국 대열차강도는 총 한 발 없이 가짜 적색 신호등으로 우편열차를 세워 260만 파운드를 털었지만, 은신처 농장에 남긴 지문 때문에 대부분 붙잡혀 당시로선 이례적인 징역 30년을 받았다 — 완전범죄를 무너뜨린 건 대담한 수법이 아니라 사소한 뒷정리였다.

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 — this episode is one worked example; the pack is the reusable standard behind it
• The Prompt Atlas — $49 — every prompt from 83 published episodes, not just this one
• 7 Ways AI Video Burns Your Credits — free — the seven measured credit leaks, at no cost
• The whole catalogue — teardowns, references, skill packs and free calculators, with what each one is for