{
 "slug": "screen-direction",
 "name": "Screen direction",
 "category": "composition",
 "group": "Continuity",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Keeps the viewer oriented across cuts: who is where, which way they move.",
 "use_when": "Dialogue, chases, any sequence of several shots.",
 "phrase": "the camera stays on the south side of the street, the sea always screen right, she always moves left to right",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Declare the side and the direction once and keep it in every prompt of the job, or people and places swap sides between shots.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting (tested prompts)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "over-the-shoulder-shot",
  "side-tracking-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "side-tracking-shot",
  "name": "Side tracking",
  "category": "move",
  "label": "Shown with: Side tracking",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/19-side-tracking-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq-card.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/composition/screen-direction",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/composition/screen-direction.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: the camera stays on the south side of the street, the sea always screen right, the subject always moves left to right\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: the camera stays on the south side of the street, the sea always screen right, the subject always moves left to right\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The camera stays on the south side of the street, the sea always screen right, the subject always moves left to right.",
  "veo-3.1": "The camera stays on the south side of the street, the sea always screen right, the subject always moves left to right. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}