The Lens Selection Prompt

Choose the lens for this shot.

Subject: [DESCRIBE]
Distance from camera: [DESCRIBE]
Effect wanted: [INTIMATE / EPIC / OBSERVATIONAL / DISORIENTING /
NEUTRAL]
Environment: [DESCRIBE]

Produce:
1. Focal length and why
2. What it does to perspective and the relationship between
   foreground and background
3. Depth of field at this focal length and distance
4. Distortion characteristics and whether they help or hurt here
5. How it changes the subject's presence in frame
6. The prompt phrasing

Then give me three alternatives:
- A wider option and what it changes
- A longer option and what it changes
- The option a cinematographer would actually choose, if different
  from your first answer

Include specific focal lengths — "wide angle" is not direction,
"24mm" is.