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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85mm portrait lens, the face in close-up, the background soft and compressed behind her.

Lenses

Portrait

Flatters faces and softens the background; the person is the subject.

Use when
Close-ups, interviews, dialogue singles, headshots.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: 29 degree diagonal field of view, camera 4 to 6 metres from the subject, no lens drift.

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Neutral, human-eye perspective: honest and unshowy.

StandardPrompt

Compresses distance: layers stack together, the viewer watches from far away.

TelephotoPrompt

Emotion and detail: the viewer reads small changes in the face.

Close-upPrompt

Sources

Field-of-view table from Higgsfield's tested Seedance prompts, via Director Chair field notes on video prompting Checked 2026-10-13.

Camera Control: a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

ShotDeck: real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

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