# Source held to camera

Edit / Edit effect / Overlays and inserts. Checked 2026-11-13.

A claim arrives with its source on screen, so a story can stay fiction while its facts stay checkable.

- Use when: Opinion pieces, future scenarios, awareness films.
- Phrase: the figure holds a printed page of the report toward the lens, its title readable
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/effect/source-to-camera
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/effect/source-to-camera.json

## Watch out

- A stated fact with no source page on screen is the listed failure of the measured story reel. (practitioner; Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026)
- Typeset the page or use the real one: video models smear long text. (practitioner; Director Chair notes on A Blender film from one request (Riley Brown, Claude Fable 5.2))

## Prompts

### Any chat model

```
Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is source held to camera: a claim arrives with its source on screen, so a story can stay fiction while its facts stay checkable. How it works: the figure holds a printed page of the report toward the lens, its title readable. It is right for: opinion pieces, future scenarios, awareness films. A stated fact with no source page on screen is the listed failure of the measured story reel. Typeset the page or use the real one: video models smear long text. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.
```

## Goes well with

- Low-poly parable: https://directorchair.ai/preset/edit-low-poly-parable
- Proof first: https://directorchair.ai/hook/proof-first

## Source

Own words from Director Chair measurement of a published short, Oct 2026

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