{
 "slug": "exposure-catch-up",
 "name": "Exposure catches up",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Human camera",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The picture behaves like a phone camera moving between dark and bright.",
 "use_when": "Walking from inside to outside, a door opening onto daylight.",
 "phrase": "the camera follows her from the dark hallway into the sunlit garden; the picture blows out for a moment and then settles",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "One behaviour per clip. Name its trigger in the scene and the operator's correction after it; follow it once and finish on its result.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)"
  },
  {
   "text": "Add a line that bans recording graphics: indicators, timestamps, battery icons, focus brackets, grids, borders and subtitles. Imperfection has to come from how the camera moves, focuses and exposes, never from drawn-on graphics.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)"
  },
  {
   "text": "Shown by a sponsored creator as straight out of Seedance 2.5 at 1080p; not yet run by us.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "human-operator-rule",
  "phone-selfie-rig"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "practitioner",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words from Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/exposure-catch-up",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/exposure-catch-up.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: The camera follows the subject from the dark hallway into the sunlit garden; the picture blows out for a moment and then settles.",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: The camera follows the subject from the dark hallway into the sunlit garden; the picture blows out for a moment and then settles.",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The camera follows the subject from the dark hallway into the sunlit garden; the picture blows out for a moment and then settles.",
  "veo-3.1": "The camera follows the subject from the dark hallway into the sunlit garden; the picture blows out for a moment and then settles. [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."
 }
}