# Bird's-eye view

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

Shows a whole place from high above, like a map, with people as dots.

- Use when: Venues, city squares, events, a festival site, aerial openings.
- Phrase: bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/angle/birds-eye-view
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/angle/birds-eye-view.json

## Watch out

- Faces smaller than about a tenth of the frame height stop looking like the reference person. Keep the person anonymous, or shoot from behind. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Bird's-eye view from high above, the square seen like a map, people as small dots. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames to search by framing (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)
- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

## Goes well with

- Extreme wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-wide-shot
- Top-down (flat lay): https://directorchair.ai/angle/top-down
- High angle: https://directorchair.ai/angle/high-angle

## Source

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

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.