# Social content

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

Readable on a phone in daylight and recognisable in the first frame.

- Use when: YouTube, Reels, TikTok, creator and brand social.
- Phrase: a little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-social
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/look/look-social.json

## Watch out

- Do not push saturation to pop on phones: platforms desaturate reds and lift shadows in compression, and pushed colour bands. (vendor; The Director Chair colour grading guide)
- One signature look reused across videos beats a new grade per video. (practitioner; The Director Chair colour grading guide)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
A little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
A little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: a little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
A little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Global look: a little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Global look: a little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. A little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. A little more midtone contrast than for a big screen, colours natural not boosted, shadows with detail, whites not clipped.
```

## 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

- 9:16 vertical: https://directorchair.ai/ratio/ratio-9-16
- Phone selfie: https://directorchair.ai/rig/phone-selfie-rig

## 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.