Director Chair
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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

BoardModelsGuidesAboutAgent skill

Iterate on drafts at 480p, then finish only the chosen draft at 1080p.

Prompt guides

Draft first, pay for 1080p once

Iteration costs a fraction, so more ideas get tried.

Use when
Seedance 2.5 work where several attempts are expected.

Prompt instructions

You are my video producer. Give me a filled-in prompt that follows this guide, plus the one thing to check in the result, for a short video about [your product], aimed at [your audience]. Technique: Draft first, pay for 1080p once. Iteration costs a fraction, so more ideas get tried. How it works: Iterate on drafts at 480p, then finish only the chosen draft at 1080p. Right for: Seedance 2.5 work where several attempts are expected. What we learned from tested runs: - Priced by our CLI on 22 Oct 2026: a 10-second draft costs 30 credits, against 70 at 720p and 160 at 1080p. - One creator shows the draft looking close to the 1080p version. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini.

Watch out

Related

Seedance 2.5 for scenes with dialogue and characters; Kling 3.0 for short cheap single shots; Veo 3.1 for the most realistic motion from one still.

Which model for videoPrompt

One continuous block in labelled sections: the look first, the scene, the cast, the place, the first frame and who stands where, then each shot on its own timecode, then optics, camera, physics, light, and the sound last.

Seedance 2.5Prompt

Hold the person, the words, the lip sync, the room and the light exactly as filmed and change nothing but the camera; then one line per shot with its timecode and where the camera stands.

More angles from one takePrompt

Sources

Own words from Director Chair notes on Seedance 2.5 realism (Dan Kieft) Checked 2026-11-13.

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