Director Chair
All groups

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

BoardModelsGuidesAboutAgent skill

The camera at eye level and close; he looks straight into the lens for one full second without speaking, then says the line.

Hooks

Eye contact and a pause

One second of silence to the lens reads as authority.

Use when
Statements that need weight: a myth, a number, a verdict.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. The camera at eye level and close; he looks straight into the lens for one full second without speaking, then says the line. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Neutral and honest: the viewer meets the person as an equal.

Eye levelPrompt

Puts the attention on the face while the shoulders and chest still show posture.

Medium close-upPrompt

Here is what actually happens.

Myth exposurePrompt

The founder holds up the dashboard to the lens: we looked at 10,000 orders, and one thing stood out.

Data revealPrompt

A gap in the sound pulls attention forward to what comes next.

Silence before the revealPrompt

Sources

Own words from the Director Chair hook framework (our 2026 synthesis of @marco.thecreative's TikTok series, OpusClip's hook formulas, a Brandefy article, Meta retention research and a Gemini research report) Checked 2026-11-13.

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