Director Chair
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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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Over-the-shoulder on a hand holding the phone, the thumb scrolling the results and tapping one.

Hooks

POV phone scroll

The viewer sees exactly what using it looks like.

Use when
Apps, shops, booking flows, anything done on a phone.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Over-the-shoulder on a hand holding the phone, the thumb scrolling the results and tapping one. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Puts the viewer inside a conversation, behind one person and facing the other.

Over-the-shoulder shotPrompt

The viewer becomes the person and sees through their eyes.

Point of viewPrompt

You are one setting away from video that looks shot, not generated.

Closer than you thinkPrompt

The new shot pushes the old one out in the direction of the movement.

SwipePrompt

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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