{
 "slug": "what-moves-what-stays",
 "name": "What moves and what stays",
 "category": "motion",
 "group": "Image to video",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "An animated photo that moves only where it should and does not look AI.",
 "use_when": "Animating a real photograph or an approved still.",
 "phrase": "real footage from a camera on a tripod, the frame identical at the start and the end; the water flows and the branches sway; the facade, the windows and the sign stay still",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Motivate the locked frame instead of banning movement, name what moves small and physical, then list what stays still element by element, and name the sky colour or it washes out.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  },
  {
   "text": "An element that keeps failing: take it out of the image and give an end frame instead of tuning the prompt again.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "static-shot",
  "environment-event-track"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Our measured recipe in Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "static-shot",
  "name": "Static shot",
  "category": "move",
  "label": "Shown with: Static shot",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/01-static-shot-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/01-static-shot-hq-card.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/what-moves-what-stays",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/what-moves-what-stays.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): real footage from a camera on a tripod, the frame identical at the start and the end; the water flows and the branches sway; the facade, the windows and the sign stay still",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: real footage from a camera on a tripod, the frame identical at the start and the end; the water flows and the branches sway; the facade, the windows and the sign stay still",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. Real footage from a camera on a tripod, the frame identical at the start and the end; the water flows and the branches sway; the facade, the windows and the sign stay still. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Real footage from a camera on a tripod, the frame identical at the start and the end; the water flows and the branches sway; the facade, the windows and the sign stay still. 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."
 }
}