# Brand film

Light and look / Colour look / By setting. Checked 2026-10-13.

The full film register: premium, narrative, emotional.

- Use when: Brand films, narrative-style ads, launch films.
- Phrase: shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-brand-film
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/look/look-brand-film.json

## Watch out

- Name the look in the prompt and still grade in the edit: generated clips drift in colour between generations, and one matching pass makes them read as one film. (measured; The Director Chair colour grading guide)
- If the viewer notices the grade, it is too strong; dial it back about half when in doubt. (practitioner; Vidar Andersen via the Director Chair colour grading guide)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
Shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
Shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
Shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Global look: shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Global look: shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. Shot on 35mm film, rich dense colour, soft highlight rolloff, a limited palette of two or three hues, fine grain and a hint of halation around lights.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- 35mm film: https://directorchair.ai/texture/film-35mm
- Kodak Vision3 500T: https://directorchair.ai/texture/vision3-500t
- Anamorphic: https://directorchair.ai/lens/anamorphic-lens

## Source

Own synthesis in the Director Chair colour grading guide

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.