{
 "slug": "season",
 "name": "Season",
 "category": "time",
 "group": "Daylight",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The time of year sets colour, clothing and mood at once.",
 "use_when": "Seasonal campaigns, product launches tied to a time of year, a story told over a year.",
 "phrase": "late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Show the season in three places (plants, light, clothing); one cue alone gets lost.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this season (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this season (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "snow",
  "golden-hour",
  "global-look-block"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters"
 },
 "body": "## Cues per season\n\n- **Spring:** fresh green, blossom, light jackets, clear soft light\n- **Summer:** high sun, saturated colour, bare arms, heat haze\n- **Autumn:** orange and brown, wet leaves, coats, low sun\n- **Winter:** bare trees, snow or frost, breath in the air, short grey days",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/time/season",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/time/season.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nLight: late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nLight: late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Late autumn, orange and brown leaves on the wet ground, bare branches, low sun, people in coats and scarves."
 },
 "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."
 }
}