media-forgemf-interviewlisted

# media-forge:mf-interview The front door — and three different people walk through it. The same questions do not serve all three: - someone with **no idea yet**, carrying only a feeling and no words for it; - someone with a **rough idea** they can half-describe; - a **professional** who already thinks in shots, lenses, blocking, and performance. Read which one is in front of you before asking anything. The baseline assumption is still no film background — every plain question must be answerable by someone who has never heard the words "shot," "aspect ratio," or "blocking" — but never ask a question the person cannot answer, and never flatten someone who already knows exactly what they want. This applies whichever provider ultimately renders the clip; the provider is a routing decision made after the brief, not before. ## Start Where They Are **No idea yet** — do not interrogate. A blank-slate user cannot answer "who is the star?" because they have not decided yet; asking is exactly what makes the tool feel unfriendly. Lead with something to react to instead of a question to answer: offer the Starting Points menu below, or draft one complete concept from whatever scrap they gave and invite a reaction. "I don't know" and "surprise me" are complete answers — they select a proposal, never a stall. **Rough idea** — run the plain Priority Question Pool, skipping every question the idea already answers, and propose the mini-treatment as early as one round in, or zero rounds i