{
 "slug": "filming-from-cover",
 "name": "Filmed from behind cover",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Human camera",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The viewer feels they are watching something they were not meant to see.",
 "use_when": "Candid moments, reveals, comedy.",
 "phrase": "filmed from behind a half-closed door, the door edge covering a third of the frame; the operator leans out to uncover the two people at the table",
 "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",
  "frame-within-frame",
  "bystander-caption"
 ],
 "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/filming-from-cover",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/filming-from-cover.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Filmed from behind a half-closed door, the door edge covering a third of the frame; the operator leans out to uncover the two people at the table.",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Filmed from behind a half-closed door, the door edge covering a third of the frame; the operator leans out to uncover the two people at the table.",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Filmed from behind a half-closed door, the door edge covering a third of the frame; the operator leans out to uncover the two people at the table.",
  "veo-3.1": "Filmed from behind a half-closed door, the door edge covering a third of the frame; the operator leans out to uncover the two people at the table. [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."
 }
}