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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

    Tools

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    Composition

    Short siding

    The person looks toward the near edge of the frame: boxed in, uneasy.

    Use when
    Tension, isolation, someone cornered; the deliberate opposite of giving looking room.

    Prompt instructions

    Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: the subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

    Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

    Say it like this

    She sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind her head.

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    Related

    Rule of thirdsPrompt Negative spacePrompt Screen directionKeeps the viewer oriented across cuts: who is where, which way they move.Prompt

    Sources

    Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters (composition: left heavy, right heavy, balanced) Checked 2026-11-13.

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