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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The pour slows to a crawl as the cup fills, then snaps to full speed on the cut to the finished drink.

Transitions

Speed ramp into the cut

Tension builds while the footage slows, and the change lands when it snaps back to speed.

Use when
A reveal, an impact, the step from set-up to result.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot. Cut: the pour slows to a crawl as the cup fills, then snaps to full speed on the cut to the finished drink

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Watch out

Related

Speeds up and slows down inside one shot; rhythm and punch.

Speed rampPrompt Stretches a moment so the viewer sees what the eye misses: water, hair, fabric, impact.Slow motionPrompt

Sources

Own words from the Director Chair hook framework (our 2026 synthesis of @marco.thecreative's TikTok series, OpusClip's hook formulas, a Brandefy article, Meta retention research and a Gemini research report) and the Director Chair script structure notes Checked 2026-11-13.

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