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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Hooks

Zoom reveal

A one-second mystery: what am I looking at?

Use when
Product details, before and after, a workspace.

Shown with: Dolly out (pull back). Clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Start on a macro of the weave of the fabric, then pull back in one move to show the whole jacket on its hanger. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Say it like this

Start on a macro of the weave of the fabric, then pull back in one move to show the whole jacket on its hanger.

Watch out

Related

Pulls away and reveals; isolation, or the bigger picture.Dolly outPrompt

Reveals texture the eye never sees: pores, fibres, droplets.

MacroPrompt Reveals context around a subject; what seemed central becomes small.Slow zoom outPrompt

Everyone says you need a film crew; we shot this on one phone.

Belief shatteringPrompt

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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