Teardown — Monkeys Have Been in Their Own Stone Age for 3,000 Years: 31 cuts, film + clips + every prompt

Every AI video tutorial shows you the prompt that worked. This shows you all 31, including the dull ones.

One published wildlife documentary — a six-minute episode — opened up. The finished film, all 31 generated clips, the 31 stills they were animated from, and for each of the 31 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/zh7p4PK_LPo

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
• 31 generated clips — the raw shots before the edit
• 31 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: 12 on tier 1, 19 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

물려줄 지식이 아무리 많아도 그 지식을 쓸 세상이 없으면 소용없다 — 문화는 단 한 세대만 놓쳐도 그대로 끊긴다. 브라질 수염카푸친의 돌 쓰는 수업은 본능이 아니라 어른을 몇 해 지켜보며 배우는 문화로 최소 3,000년·약 450세대 이어졌고, 태국 마카크는 무리마다 방식이 다른 지역 문화까지 가졌지만 먹이가 줄자 도구마저 작아졌다. 학교·문화·전통이 원숭이에게도 있다면, 우리가 '인간만의 것'이라 믿었던 건 대체 무엇이었나.

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