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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Extreme wide shot from far away, the landscape fills the frame, one person small in the lower third.

Shot sizes

Extreme wide shot

The place becomes the subject and people turn into a detail in it, which reads as scale, isolation or wonder.

Use when
Opening a video, showing where something happens, selling the size of a site, a venue or a landscape.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: extreme wide shot from far away, the landscape fills the frame, one person small in the lower third Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

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Related

The viewer understands the situation, the person and their surroundings, before any emotion.

Wide shotPrompt

Tells the viewer where and when the next scene happens, before anyone speaks.

Establishing shotPrompt

Shows a whole place from high above, like a map, with people as dots.

Bird's-eye viewPrompt

Sources

Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall Checked 2026-10-13.

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

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

Camera Control: a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.