# Consistency & the Mini Multi-Shot Scene

**Track:** Video — beginner → intermediate — Generative AI Video — proposed
**Framework / surface:** ij8 Studio (I2V + last-frame chaining)
**Level:** Intermediate
**Prerequisites:** Directing the Lens, Keyframes & Transitions

**In one line:** Chain shots and references to hold a character across cuts.

## Theory, aesthetics & inspiration

A scene is built from shots, and the cut between them is where meaning is assembled. Lev Kuleshov showed that audiences read relationship and emotion into adjacent images, and Sergei Eisenstein theorized montage as collision and synthesis. Holding a character consistent across those shots is the technical precondition for editing to work at all. Feeding the last frame of one clip as the opening of the next, reinforced by reference images, chains identity through the cuts. The aesthetic reward is continuity: a viewer accepts a sequence as one place and one person seen from multiple angles. Coherence across shots is what turns isolated clips into a scene.