Director Chair
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Camera

Shot sizes 13Angles 13Camera moves 42Rigs 6Lenses 9Focus and depth 4

Frame

Composition 13Aspect ratios 6

Light and look

Light 11Time of day 4Colour looks 13Film stock and texture 9Art styles 6

People and places

Characters 5Expressions 31Settings 3

Motion

Subject motion and speed 8

Edit

Transitions 21Edit effects 41Sound 14

Story

Hooks 46Script arcs 10Video formats 11Calls to action 5Test and publish 16

Recipes

Presets 28Prompt guides 11

Tools

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Open the prompt with the framing and a test: full figure, if her shoes are not visible it is wrong.

Composition

Framing first

The model keeps the frame you asked for instead of cropping to its favourite portrait.

Use when
Every prompt where the framing matters.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: open the prompt with the framing and a test: full figure, if her shoes are not visible it is wrong Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet.

Full shotPrompt

Her feet on line 88 of 100 from the top, everything below empty.

Grid positionPrompt

Sources

Director Chair field notes on image prompting Checked 2026-10-13.

Camera Control: a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

ShotDeck: real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

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