# Front view

Camera / Angle / Viewpoint. Checked 2026-11-13.

Face to face: direct, confrontational or honest.

- Use when: Direct address, mugshot-style portraits, symmetrical frames, the moment someone turns to face the viewer.
- Phrase: seen straight from the front, her face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/angle/front-view
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/angle/front-view.json

## Watch out

- A front view flattens the face; turn the body a few degrees or light it from the side when the shape of the face matters. (film-craft; The controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Seen straight from the front, the subject's face and chest square to the camera, both ears equally visible. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt
- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this view (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this view (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Three-quarter view: https://directorchair.ai/angle/three-quarter-view
- Side profile: https://directorchair.ai/angle/profile-shot
- Centred symmetry: https://directorchair.ai/composition/centred-symmetry

## Source

Own words; the term from the controls of the free 3D stage at aicameracontrol.com, read 13 Nov 2026 and general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters

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