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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Telephoto lens from far away, strong compression, the people and the buildings behind them stacked close together.

Lenses

Telephoto

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

Use when
Two people stacked close, crowds, sport, a surveillance feel.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: 18 degree diagonal field of view, camera 10 metres or more from the subject, no lens drift.

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

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

PortraitPrompt

Sources

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

ShotDeck: real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)

Camera Control: a 3D stage where this lens is 100mm at 14 degrees vertical field of view

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

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