{
 "slug": "three-quarter-view",
 "name": "Three-quarter view",
 "category": "angle",
 "group": "Viewpoint",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "The most natural angle on a face: depth and both eyes visible, without staring at the viewer.",
 "use_when": "Portraits, interviews where the person talks to someone beside the camera.",
 "phrase": "three-quarter view, her face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "For an interview look, name who she is looking at (the interviewer beside the camera). Otherwise the model makes her look into the lens.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "source": "Not measured yet, check on the first example"
  }
 ],
 "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"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "profile-shot",
  "close-up",
  "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/three-quarter-view",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/angle/three-quarter-view.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens.",
  "veo-3.1": "Three-quarter view, the subject's face turned halfway between the camera and the side, both eyes visible, looking just past the lens. [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."
 }
}