lens · 4 recipes
Wide-Angle Lens
A wide-angle lens covers a broad field for its format, letting near objects and their wider surroundings share the composition.
Selected recipe
24mm Wide
24mm Wide is a variant of Rectilinear Wide-Angle Family. It retains its own complete execution recipe.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Specify the image format and selected rectilinear focal length; preserve straight scene lines and intentional camera distances. Translation may create parallax, but a fixed viewpoint must not acquire invented perspective motion.
Wide-Angle Lens: A wide-angle lens covers a broad field for its format, letting near objects and their wider surroundings share the composition. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- From the railings near the textile factory, the pulleys near the sail-making workshop, to the wine cellar arcade and the calligraphy studio, select the coverage range according to the environmental information needs.
- How it works
- First, determine the frame size and the nearby objects, people, and background that must be included, then choose the starting focal length. Use actual distances to control the scale of nearby objects, without stretching the facial features of people individually. Select fixed or short horizontal movement according to the formula, and separately check the field of view coverage and motion parallax.
- Common mistakes
- Make all wide shots into a fisheye bowl shape. The background in a still shot expands or slides on its own.
How to read this page
Wide-Angle Lens is one technique in Lenses. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
The clip above is one reading, made with a third-party video model. Another model, or the same model on another day, can land on a different frame. It is an example, not a promise that a prompt will match it.
The free short prompt is a starter sentence. The shot card is the timed recipe: scene, start and end frames, action, light, and color. Three sample cards are free on the site. The rest are part of GrokCine Pro. A second name for the same shot keeps its own URL and points back at this definition.
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Prompt versions
Same technique, different prompts. Version A is the latest prompt; older versions are the exact prompts that kept clips were made from. Each version shows every model that used it.
Version A · latest：Cooper lifts a half-built oak cask · wine cellar
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
A cooper in rolled sleeves lifts a half-finished oak cask inside a barrel cellar, so the near staves and the far cellar steps both remain in a wide view.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
In a stone barrel cellar, a cooper in rolled sleeves works on a half-finished oak cask, loose staves stacked near the camera and worn steps leading up behind him.
Shot cards
The full recipe for 24mm Wide is a shot card
The full recipe for 24mm Wide is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
Related families
- 50mm Normal Lens
50mm Normal LensA 50 mm full-frame lens offers a moderate angle of view without the broad coverage of a wide lens or the narrow crop of a long telephoto. - Telephoto Lens
Telephoto LensA telephoto field isolates a small distant region; it need not imply a change of perspective during the shot. - Anamorphic Lens
Anamorphic LensAn anamorphic system records unequal horizontal and vertical magnification and requires the matching desqueeze for correct display geometry. - Fisheye Lens
Fisheye LensA fisheye uses a curvilinear mapping that bends off-center straight lines systematically around the image center.
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References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Wide-angle lens
Wikipedia · Web
Focal length shorter than the format diagonal; exaggerates near/far size differences.
Videos
- Barry Sonnenfeld on wide lenses and Kubrick
@coenesqued2 · 2023-11-08 · X
Barry Sonnenfeld on how he and Kubrick use wide-angle lenses for different purposes.
Images & stills
- Wide-angle interiors: 2001 and Westworld
@vashikoo · 2018-06-10 · X
Well-designed wide-angle interior shots (2001, Westworld).
- The Shining: wide-angle corridor shots
@ewanwilson4 · 2019-07-15 · X
Kubrick's wide-angle corridor shots in The Shining create dread in fully lit scenes.
- Wide lens up close distorts the face
@hanoverpictures · 2018-03-07 · X
A wide lens close to an actor distorts the face.
- Shōgun: wide-lens distortion as surreality
@Distant_Warrior · 2024-04-11 · X
Shōgun keeps visible wide-lens distortion as subtle surreality.