{
 "slug": "guide-shot-from-first-frame",
 "name": "Prompt a shot from your own first frame",
 "category": "guide",
 "group": "Which model",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Prompts that keep the camera, the picture and the acting apart, so you can swap one without breaking the others.",
 "use_when": "Every image-to-video job and every still built shot by shot.",
 "phrase": "start frame attached; then four separate parts: the subject, the place, the camera move, the look; and the action of the person on its own line",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "In image-to-video, spend the words on what happens; the start frame already carries the look, the identity and the composition.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "url": "https://aicameramovements.com/",
   "what": "a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "framing-label",
  "what-moves-what-stays",
  "global-look-block"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Structure as on the aicameramovements prompt builder and the Camera Control fields (both read 13 Oct 2026), in our own words"
 },
 "body": "## The parts, kept apart\n\n1. **First frame or blocking.** Attach your start image, or block the frame first in a 3D stage (Camera Control) and export it as the composition reference.\n2. **Subject** and **place**: only what the image does not already show.\n3. **Camera move:** one move, written as a move card (camera, pace, keep, ends).\n4. **Action:** what the person does, as behaviour with a trigger.\n5. **Look:** the job's look sentence, the same in every prompt.\n6. **Sheets:** say whether a character sheet or an environment sheet is attached, and give each its role.\n\nBoth free tools we point to work this way: the move library keeps the camera line apart from the scene, and the 3D stage asks for subject, environment, camera move and look as separate fields.",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/guide/guide-shot-from-first-frame",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/guide/guide-shot-from-first-frame.md",
 "prompts": {
  "chat": "Give me a filled-in prompt that follows this guide, plus the one thing to check in the result, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is prompt a shot from your own first frame: prompts that keep the camera, the picture and the acting apart, so you can swap one without breaking the others. How it works: start frame attached; then four separate parts: the subject, the place, the camera move, the look; and the action of the person on its own line. It is right for: every image-to-video job and every still built shot by shot. In image-to-video, spend the words on what happens; the start frame already carries the look, the identity and the composition. 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."
 }
}