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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

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35mm Kodak Vision3 500T, warm tungsten interiors, visible grain, halation around the lamps.

Film stock and texture

Kodak Vision3 500T

Tungsten night stock: deep, warm interiors and coarser grain.

Use when
Night scenes and interiors in a cinema register.

Prompt instructions

Global look: 35mm Kodak Vision3 500T, warm tungsten interiors, visible grain, halation around the lamps Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Clean daylight film: fresh colours, fine grain.

Kodak Vision3 250DPrompt

Only artificial light: intimacy, mystery, nightlife.

NightPrompt

Sources

Colour grading guide; Rourke Heath's look line via Director Chair field notes on video prompting Checked 2026-10-13.

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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