What production route does the sit down and settle shot need?

At least trained model. The only route that holds up for video and for anything shot from behind, in profile, or in bad light. It costs a training run and a storage decision, and it locks you to the model family you trained on — a LoRA built for one base model is not portable to another.

Shots Motion

Sit down and settle

An opening that gives a video somewhere to start. It is also a full-body motion sequence, which makes it one of the most demanding clips in the library.

Trained modelVideoTell a storyA day in the life

The recipe

Four fragments, composed around your locked line

The shot never describes the person. It describes what is happening to them, which is what keeps the face out of the variables.

Opening: Video ofRuns straight into the locked line
Framing: Medium wide, static camera, chair in the centre
Direction: Entering frame, sitting, settling, then looking up to camera to begin
Finish: Room light unchanged throughout, no cut, no camera move

Getting it right

Chairs and clothing folds are where physics errors appear — watch the settle
The look-up is the edit point; everything before it can be cut

Composed

This shot, composed against the default spec

The locked line comes from the character sheet; everything after it comes from the recipe above. Swap in your own line and nothing else changes.

Midjourney

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a warm neutral palette of sand, bone and camel, in a small modern city apartment, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Medium wide, static camera, chair in the centre. Entering frame, sitting, settling, then looking up to camera to begin. Room light unchanged throughout, no cut, no camera move --ar 4:5 --style raw --seed 2865404059 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100

Flux

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a warm neutral palette of sand, bone and camel, in a small modern city apartment, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Medium wide, static camera, chair in the centre. Entering frame, sitting, settling, then looking up to camera to begin. Room light unchanged throughout, no cut, no camera move

negative: beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, clear skin, freckles removed, poreless skin
seed: 2865404059 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28

Seedream

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a warm neutral palette of sand, bone and camel, in a small modern city apartment, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Medium wide, static camera, chair in the centre. Entering frame, sitting, settling, then looking up to camera to begin. Room light unchanged throughout, no cut, no camera move

Keep identical: a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build
Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]

Motion

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Walk toward camera

Trained model

Full body walking toward a static camera at chest height, eight metres to two

MotionVideoAny niche

Turn to camera

Trained model

Chest up, starting in profile, camera static on an 85mm

MotionVideoAny niche

Gesture explainer

Reference frame

Chest up, static camera, hands entering the lower third

MotionVideoAny niche

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Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a warm neutral palette of sand, bone and camel, in a small modern city apartment, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Medium wide, static camera, chair in the centre. Entering frame, sitting, settling, then looking up to camera to begin. Room light unchanged throughout, no cut, no camera move --ar 4:5 --style raw --seed 2865404059 --cref [url of your approved reference frame] --cw 100

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a warm neutral palette of sand, bone and camel, in a small modern city apartment, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Medium wide, static camera, chair in the centre. Entering frame, sitting, settling, then looking up to camera to begin. Room light unchanged throughout, no cut, no camera move negative: beauty filter, airbrushed skin, plastic skin, waxy skin, over-smoothed, perfectly symmetrical face, extra fingers, malformed hands, warped jewellery, text artifacts, watermark, logo on clothing, duplicate person, changing facial structure, clear skin, freckles removed, poreless skin seed: 2865404059 | guidance: 3.5 | steps: 28

Video of a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build. Wearing plain unbranded basics, a warm neutral palette of sand, bone and camel, in a small modern city apartment, soft daylight from a large window, camera at eye level. Medium wide, static camera, chair in the centre. Entering frame, sitting, settling, then looking up to camera to begin. Room light unchanged throughout, no cut, no camera move Keep identical: a woman, late twenties, South Asian features, an oval face, dark brown almond eyes, softly arched brows, a straight nose, evenly balanced lips, a scatter of freckles across the nose and cheeks, shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair with a centre part, golden skin, natural texture and visible pores, average height with an average build Change only: [the one thing that changes in this shot]