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Screen direction

Keeps the viewer oriented across cuts: who is where, which way they move.

Use when: Dialogue, chases, any sequence of several shots.

Shown with: Side tracking. Clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: the camera stays on the south side of the street, the sea always screen right, she always moves left to right Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Say it like this

The camera stays on the south side of the street, the sea always screen right, she always moves left to right.

Watch out

Declare the side and the direction once and keep it in every prompt of the job, or people and places swap sides between shots.vendor: Director Chair field notes on video prompting (tested prompts)

Puts the viewer inside a conversation, behind one person and facing the other.

Over-the-shoulder shotPrompt

Shows motion as a clean line across the frame; speed and direction become graphic.Side trackingPrompt

Sources

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

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.