A field guide for directing camera movements with prompting.

Shot explorer

Browse by family, or start from the feeling you are chasing. Every card shows what the camera actually does, how hard the shot is to land, and how much energy it carries.

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Shot notes

Seven families, roughly in order of how reliably models land them. If a shot is not working, moving up this list is usually cheaper than rewriting the prompt.

The house spec

Every prompt is built in the same order. First the camera, in four clauses — Movement, Speed, Framing, End. Then your Scene. Then one Look clause carrying the four Customize details in a fixed order — Shot size, Lens, Light, Look — each only added when you set it. The camera leads because it is the instruction models weight hardest; the scene sits second so the framing has a real subject to hold; the look trails as the finish. Keep that shape when you write new ones — it is what makes two generations comparable, and it gives you a single clause to edit when a shot misses.