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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Top-down shot, the camera straight above the table looking down, the objects laid flat on the surface.

Angles

Top-down

Turns a table into a layout: objects become shapes in a graphic arrangement.

Use when
Food, products laid out, unboxing, a workspace.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: top-down shot, the camera straight above the table looking down, the objects laid flat on the surface Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

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Related

Makes the subject smaller or more vulnerable, or gives an overview of what they are doing.

High anglePrompt

Shows a whole place from high above, like a map, with people as dots.

Bird's-eye viewPrompt

Shows the viewer the one object the story needs them to notice.

Insert 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.

ShotDeck: real film examples of this angle (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills of this angle (free tier, link only)

Camera Control: a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.