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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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Medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm.

Composition

Framing label

One short line fixes the frame: how big, from which side, from which height, with which lens.

Use when
The opening line of any shot prompt; a shared language between the brief and the prompt.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

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

Framing firstPrompt

Three-quarter view, her face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.

Three-quarter viewPrompt

Rear three-quarter view, the camera behind her left shoulder and slightly to the side, the edge of her cheek and what she is looking at both in frame.

Rear three-quarter viewPrompt Ground levelPrompt

Sources

Label structure from Camera Control (aicameracontrol.com), its framing label read on 13 Oct 2026 by placing the subject in the 3D stage 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)

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.