# Historical Reconstruction Shot List Template

> A shot-planning template for realistic AI reconstruction that protects period detail, continuity, evidence boundaries, and disclosure.

Canonical: https://onira.studio/templates/historical-reconstruction-shot-list
Audience: History filmmakers, visual directors, and AI video producers
Production job: Historical visual direction
Runtime: Scene planning artifact
Format: Shot-by-shot plan

## Use this brief

Design a reconstruction shot list for [historical beat]. For each shot specify narrative purpose, documented constraints, subject references, setting, time, weather, material detail, camera position, movement, duration, transition, and the visual facts that require human review.

## Required inputs

- Approved beat plan and exact narration timing
- Period references for people, clothing, setting, objects, geography, and light
- A list of details that are known, inferred, disputed, or prohibited
- Continuity anchors for recurring people, places, props, and final frames

## Editorial structure

1. Establish geography and scale before relying on close detail.
2. Assign every shot one narrative purpose and one continuity dependency.
3. Describe what the frame looks like separately from what moves during the shot.
4. Plan visual evidence, atmosphere, and transitions without fabricating archival authority.
5. Mark shots that need disclosure, specialist review, regeneration, or replacement with authentic material.

## Acceptance checks

- Compare generated detail against period references and known geography.
- Check hands, faces, anatomy, text, insignia, tools, scale, physics, and crowd behavior.
- Verify recurring identities, wardrobe, props, weather, direction of travel, and time of day.
- Ensure captions, voiceover, and page copy never label reconstruction as archive.

## Visual direction

Specific, restrained, and physically legible. Camera movement should reveal the story space, not hide visual errors.

## Narration direction

Let narration carry factual certainty. Do not make the image imply details that the words and sources cannot support.

## Product boundary

- Onira delivers a final MP4; it does not upload or schedule posts on YouTube or social platforms.
- Onira provides a reviewable production workflow; creators remain responsible for approving the story, facts, rights, disclosure, and final publication.
- Director chat is limited to regenerating one selected PREVIEW timeline video clip; other available Studio controls are separate direct actions.
- Creators must review facts, sources, rights, realistic-synthetic-media disclosure, and platform policy before publishing.
- Onira does not guarantee YouTube monetization, reach, factual accuracy, or legal clearance.