# From behind

Camera / Angle / Viewpoint. Checked 2026-10-13.

Keeps the person anonymous and puts the viewer where they are heading.

- Use when: Walking into a venue, looking at a view, any shot where the face must stay unrecognisable.
- Phrase: shot from behind at shoulder height, we see her back and what she is walking towards
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/angle/back-view
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/angle/back-view.json

## Watch out

- When a real person has to appear small in the frame, this is the safe choice: faces below about a tenth of the frame height do not keep their likeness. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Shot from behind at shoulder height, we see the subject back and what the subject is walking towards. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

## Goes well with

- Over-the-shoulder shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/over-the-shoulder-shot
- Point of view (POV): https://directorchair.ai/angle/pov-shot
- Extreme wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-wide-shot

## Source

Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall

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