{
 "slug": "profile-shot",
 "name": "Side profile",
 "category": "angle",
 "group": "Viewpoint",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Shows a person in thought or in motion, at a distance from the viewer.",
 "use_when": "Someone walking, working or looking at something out of frame.",
 "phrase": "side profile, the camera level with his face at a right angle to it, more space in front of his face than behind his head",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Leave room in front of the face in the direction of the look. Without it the frame feels cramped.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "Camera grammar"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate"
  },
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this angle (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this angle (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "three-quarter-view",
  "back-view"
 ],
 "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/profile-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/angle/profile-shot.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head.",
  "veo-3.1": "Side profile, the camera level with the subject's face at a right angle to it, more space in front of the subject's face than behind the subject's head. [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."
 }
}