{
 "slug": "source-to-camera",
 "name": "Source held to camera",
 "category": "effect",
 "group": "Overlays and inserts",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "A claim arrives with its source on screen, so a story can stay fiction while its facts stay checkable.",
 "use_when": "Opinion pieces, future scenarios, awareness films.",
 "phrase": "the figure holds a printed page of the report toward the lens, its title readable",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A stated fact with no source page on screen is the listed failure of the measured story reel.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "Typeset the page or use the real one: video models smear long text.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on A Blender film from one request (Riley Brown, Claude Fable 5.2)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "edit-low-poly-parable",
  "proof-first"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/source-to-camera",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/effect/source-to-camera.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is source held to camera: a claim arrives with its source on screen, so a story can stay fiction while its facts stay checkable. How it works: the figure holds a printed page of the report toward the lens, its title readable. It is right for: opinion pieces, future scenarios, awareness films. A stated fact with no source page on screen is the listed failure of the measured story reel. Typeset the page or use the real one: video models smear long text. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing."
 },
 "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."
 }
}