Directing note: menus for shot size and angle

Three tools put shot size and camera angle in menus rather than in the prompt: Adobe Firefly, Leonardo Motion 2.0 and LTX Studio. A menu makes the choice repeatable, since the same pick sends the same request every time. As of 2026-09-25.

Firefly defines each option in a line, from an extreme close-up to a top-down shot, and switches the menus off when a first frame is uploaded, because the image already fixes the framing.

A menu also limits the choice to what the maker offers. A shot size missing from the list still has to be written into the prompt, where the model may or may not honour it.

1From the docs

Select from the available camera Motion options to guide the camera's movement within the generated video

Adobe, Firefly help: generate videos using text prompts

Close-up : frames the subject tightly, typically focusing on the face to emphasize emotions or a specific detail.

Google Cloud, Veo video prompt guide

slowly advancing medium shot, shot from a level angle

Tencent Hunyuan, HunyuanVideo-1.5 repository

• Camera
  Camera motion options to pick: zoom in or out, move left or right, tilt up or down, static and handheldAdobe, Firefly help: generate videos using text prompts / recorded 2026-09-25
• Camera angles and shot types
  Shot sizes and angles are defined one by one, from extreme close-up to wide, low-angle and dutch angleGoogle Cloud, Veo video prompt guide / recorded 2026-09-25
• Demo prompts
  Shot size and angle appear in the demo prompts, such as a medium shot from a level angleTencent Hunyuan, HunyuanVideo-1.5 repository / recorded 2026-09-25
• Multi-shot examples
  Shot size and angle open each numbered shot in the guide's examplesKling AI, VIDEO 3.0 model user guide / recorded 2026-09-25
• Style
  Shot Type style options, such as Close Up and Overhead, chosen by style IDLeonardo.Ai API docs, Motion 2.0 from text prompts / recorded 2026-09-25
• Precision in shot design
  Shot type, camera angle and framing are set for each shot in the shot editorLTX, Shot Video Editor platform page / recorded 2026-09-25
• Aesthetic control
  A prompt dictionary covers shot size, camera angle and lens alongside light and movementAlibaba Cloud Model Studio, Wan prompt guide / recorded 2026-09-25
• Camera motion
  Camera moves are prompt words, each defined with an example: static, pan, tilt, dolly and moreGoogle Cloud, Veo video prompt guide / recorded 2026-09-25

2The film language, written for you

Where “Menus for shot size and angle” has to be written by hand, SceneMixer's pipeline writes the shots; its guides explain:

Paste a scene or a short script and SceneMixer gives you a storyboard — numbered shots with framing and seconds — and then a moving version of each segment, which you can join into a rough cut of the scene.

SceneMixer, Using SceneMixer for Previs and Animatics Before a Live-Action Shoot (read 2026-10-13)

SceneMixer writes dialogue into the script analysis, assigns each line to a shot with a speaker and a short delivery note, and the video model performs it — picture and audio generated together, so the mouth forms that sentence in the language you chose.

SceneMixer, AI Dialogue Generator (read 2026-10-13)

3Other notes

• One word, many models
• Motion scores in open models

Examples are quoted from the models' docs; no model was run.