Rare tools and AI clichés

Standard entrances, once

Word-rise, count-up and zoom-fade each get one use per film.

Three rows of eight beat slots, labelled word rise, count-up and zoom-fade. Each row has exactly one yellow slot.word risecount-upzoom-fadebeats, in order

Takeaways

  • One word-rise line per film.
  • One zoom-fade.
  • One count-up, for a number that matters.
  • Replace the rest with a swap, a mask or a cut.

What it means

These are the moves everyone reaches for. Each is fine once, in the place it earns its keep, and a tell when it is everywhere. So each gets a budget of one, and the rest of the film uses swaps, masks, splits and cuts on the beat.

In a RasanAI film

The cliche-* checks count them: one word-rise line, one zoom-fade entrance, one count-up for a real hero number such as social proof. Everything else is a swap in place, a mask wipe, an object splitting a word, a stepped pop or a hard cut.

Origins and sources

Engine rule from real launch films.

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