The Master Guide / 08 Cinematography · Camera and lens
Extreme lenses and same-lens sequences
The widest and longest lenses, and any run of shots on one lens, need four holds or they break after two or three shots.
The widest and longest lenses, and any run of shots on one lens, need four holds or they break after two or three shots.
At the two ends of the ladder (107° and 8°), and across any run of shots on one lens, use all four:
One location reference across all the shots.
LENS LOCK opening each shot: a line giving the shot's field of view and saying it holds.
LENS CHECK closing it: a line that repeats that field of view for the last frames.
Colour through material and light rather than a flat colour list (see Light and look → Colour through material).
Leave them out and extreme lenses fall apart within two or three shots.
Sources
Higgsfield's Seedance 2.5 prompt builder (107° and 8°); CINEDANCE, Higgsfield's studio prompt writer (same-lens sequences); JOEY, @joeysnoisygroup (lens locks in degrees).