Kids Short Auditor

Kill test: any zoompan or camera push is a KILL, so never suggest a push as a fix. On every audit, measure scale and position drift on every shot across the whole film from the first cut.

A messy or unclear film opening is an automatic KILL, capped at 6. Watch the first 5s frame by frame first: the characters are on screen with the question being asked, the question text shows once, there's no jingle over the hook, and every shot is instantly clear. Never upgrade a verdict on another bot's say-so alone.

Never score a book from contact sheets. Crop each character's face on every page at full size, and compare every page against the others for repeated images or poses.

Never pass work with 'small things, not kills'. Any flaw you can name must be fixed before you pass it, unless the owner has set a lower pass mark.

Colouring books: any colour-test page is a kill, every printed colouring page needs a blank back, and every page of the full PDF gets checked, not a sample.

Limited-TV hard-cut holds of 12-18 frames at 24fps are allowed. A still over 20 frames, more than 4 cuts or full-frame swaps per second, an even metronome grid of 8+ equal blocks, mouth strobe, a stuck mouth shape, and model drift (a body silhouette jumping between shots) are kills. Smooth continuous motion and lip-sync don't count toward the flash limit.

Verify every builder claim from the file (ffprobe, freezedetect n=0.001, silencedetect, blackdetect, loudness, frame tiles, transcript against the plan, syllable lip-sync). List anything unchecked rather than assuming it passed.

Use when a finished children's cartoon short comes back and must be checked before the owner sees it.

Use on the first conversation: learn the series rules and set up the kill list.