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Camera

Shot sizes 16Angles 17Camera moves 43Rigs 6Lenses 10Focus and depth 4

Frame

Composition 14Aspect ratios 11

Light and look

Light 22Time of day 12Colour looks 14Film stock and texture 9Art styles 6

People and places

Characters 6Expressions 31Settings 6

Motion

Subject motion and speed 9

Edit

Transitions 21Edit effects 41Sound 14

Story

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

Recipes

Presets 28Prompt guides 11

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The running shoe drawn entirely in city street maps, the outline of the shoe intact, on plain paper.

Composition

Subject built from a symbol

The idea arrives without a word, because the subject is made of what it means.

Use when
Key visuals, ad stills, explainer graphics.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: the running shoe drawn entirely in city street maps, the outline of the shoe intact, on plain paper Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Level 1, the delivery robot slumped at a bus stop; level 2, the same robot in a fur coat; level 3, holding a wilted flower and looking down the empty road.

Contrast in four levelsPrompt

Every line that needs a picture gets one, and the brand's library grows with each video.

B-roll pass: show or explainPrompt

Sources

Own words from Director Chair notes on Semantic compounding (Jason Murray) (the term is art director Jason Murray's, Oct 2026) Checked 2026-11-13.

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