Director Chair
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Camera

Shot sizes 16Angles 17Camera moves 43Rigs 6Lenses 10Focus and depth 4

Frame

Composition 14Aspect ratios 11

Light and look

Light 22Time of day 12Colour looks 14Film stock and texture 9Art styles 6

People and places

Characters 6Expressions 31Settings 6

Motion

Subject motion and speed 9

Edit

Transitions 21Edit effects 41Sound 14

Story

Hooks 46Script arcs 10Video formats 11Calls to action 5Test and publish 16

Recipes

Presets 28Prompt guides 11

Tools

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Shot from behind at shoulder height, we see her back and what she is walking towards.

Angles

From behind

Keeps the person anonymous and puts the viewer where they are heading.

Use when
Walking into a venue, looking at a view, any shot where the face must stay unrecognisable.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: shot from behind at shoulder height, we see her back and what she is walking towards Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Puts the viewer inside a conversation, behind one person and facing the other.

Over-the-shoulder shotPrompt

The viewer becomes the person and sees through their eyes.

Point of viewPrompt

The place becomes the subject and people turn into a detail in it, which reads as scale, isolation or wonder.

Extreme wide shotPrompt

Sources

Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall Checked 2026-10-13.

Camera Control: a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

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