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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A line of at most six words in high contrast above the speaker's head, on screen from the first frame.

Hooks

Text on screen first

Gives muted viewers a reason to stay before a word is spoken.

Use when
Every feed video.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. A line of at most six words in high contrast above the speaker's head, on screen from the first frame. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

In the first second: something moves toward the camera, a bold line of at most six words appears above the head before the first word is spoken, and one sound effect hits.

Three-layer hookPrompt

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 2026-10-13.

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