The Shot node
Add a ready-made composition to your prompt with the Shot Lab: locked presets, compositions named after filmmakers, and how Shot works alongside Style and Pose.
What this video covers
In this video, we'll look at the Shot node, which adds a ready-made composition to your prompt.
Double-click it to open the Shot Lab: six hundred still compositions in nine sections, from The Alphabet to The Masters.
Each section has groups: click one to narrow the list, and click it again to get the section back.
Locked compositions change only the rendering, not the camera, so they can go on top of a frame you already have.
Search only covers the open section: in Director & DP Signatures, typing "Kubrick" leaves three compositions.
Pick The Kubrick One-Point and the browser closes; the node now wears the preset's glyph and name.
Forty-eight compositions are named after a filmmaker. Open the node again and press Normal: it turns to Resurrected, and the filmmaker's name goes into the prompt.
Like Style and Pose, Shot builds the text in order: here, Style adds the light, Shot the frame, and Pose the cook's stance.
Run it, and Nano Banana 2 makes one image for one hundred credits; in the Generator's menu, Prompt sent includes Kubrick's name.
In the result, the alley narrows symmetrically to a central vanishing point, with the cook right on the axis.
In short: Shot adds the composition, locked presets change only the rendering, and Resurrected brings the filmmaker into the prompt.
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