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Shot direction: how close, from where, how the camera moves.
Directing one shot: how close the camera is, the angle it looks from, and how it moves. Everything here is picked from pictures and clips, and each pick writes a line of the script. The example is sh020 of the Dean episode.

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1. Framing, as pictures

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Open the shot form

Select sh020 and press the pencil in the Shots toolbar (or right-click → Edit shot…).
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Open Framing, as pictures

Under Framing and Length, open Framing, as pictures: the nine sizes as the same woman on the same street, extreme close-up to extreme wide, each with how much the frame holds (chest up, head to toe), and the four angles: POV, over the shoulder, low, high.
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Pick one

Click Low angle. What the model is told, beside the form, changes with it.

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2. Camera moves, as clips

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Open Camera moves, as clips

Next to Camera, open Camera moves, as clips: each move as a short clip of the same street, played while you point at it: push in, pull out, pan, tilt, truck, arc, POV, handheld…
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Pick a move

Click Arc around. It starts the camera line.
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Set its amplitude, speed and where it goes

Choose the amplitude (small to large) and the speed (slow to fast). Under where it goes, say what the move travels around, toward or reveals: around Dean, toward her face, revealing the square. The model frames the end of the move from it.
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Save and generate

Press Save and generate: the camera line goes into the script (camera: arcs around Dean with small amplitude at slow speed) and a take is queued.
Say what the camera moves around. A bare The camera arcs around. leaves the model to choose, and in the recording it went round the oak tree outside the window: the window held still, and the house moved as if on wheels. seriesmith now names the shot’s people after a bare arc, but it’s still best to say it yourself.

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3. Changing one take’s prompt

To try a different camera line on a single take without changing the script:
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New take…

Right-click the take → New take like this one….
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Edit the prompt

In the dialog’s prompt, change the camera sentence (The camera arcs around Dean.). Keep the seed the same to compare like with like.
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Generate

Press Generate proxy take (or final). Now the camera goes round Dean, and the room turns behind him.
If the change is one to keep, put it into the script (the shot form or the Script window): story edits belong there, not in a one-take prompt.

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4. Compare the takes

Select sh020’s takes and compare them two at a time (Compare with…, side by side or under a wipe), or Use each in turn and Play all: as written (medium, the camera still), low angle arcing around the tree, low angle arcing around Dean.

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9 · Render anywhere

The same shot on another model, or another machine.

Camera moves

The camera vocabulary in the script.