{
 "slug": "slow-motion",
 "name": "Slow motion",
 "category": "motion",
 "group": "Speed",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Stretches a moment so the viewer sees what the eye misses: water, hair, fabric, impact.",
 "use_when": "Product splashes, a decisive moment, sport, beauty.",
 "phrase": "slow motion, the splash rendered at high frame rate and played back slowly, every droplet visible",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Ration it. Name the one or two moments in slow motion and keep the rest at normal speed, or it loses its weight.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting (Runway enhancer, tested prompts)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "speed-ramp",
  "time-lapse"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "The first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "time-lapse",
  "name": "Time-lapse",
  "category": "motion",
  "label": "Shown with: Time-lapse",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq-card.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/slow-motion",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/slow-motion.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): slow motion, the splash rendered at high frame rate and played back slowly, every droplet visible",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: slow motion, the splash rendered at high frame rate and played back slowly, every droplet visible",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. Slow motion, the splash rendered at high frame rate and played back slowly, every droplet visible. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Slow motion, the splash rendered at high frame rate and played back slowly, every droplet visible. 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."
 }
}