{
 "slug": "pov-shot",
 "name": "Point of view (POV)",
 "category": "angle",
 "group": "Viewpoint",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "The viewer becomes the person and sees through their eyes.",
 "use_when": "Creator-style demos, first-person product use, what my day looks like.",
 "phrase": "point-of-view shot, the camera is her eyes, her own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Give the viewpoint a reason: this is taken from her own chair, the camera is her eyes, she is not in the picture. A motivated viewpoint holds where a ban is ignored.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  },
  {
   "text": "A hand that enters from the side gets a body attached. Let the hands enter from the bottom edge.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this shot type (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this shot type (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "insert-shot",
  "back-view",
  "eye-level"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/angle/pov-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/angle/pov-shot.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product.",
  "veo-3.1": "Point-of-view shot, the camera is the subject's eyes, the subject's own hands visible at the bottom of the frame holding the product. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}