{
 "slug": "short-siding",
 "name": "Short siding",
 "category": "composition",
 "group": "Placement",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The person looks toward the near edge of the frame: boxed in, uneasy.",
 "use_when": "Tension, isolation, someone cornered; the deliberate opposite of giving looking room.",
 "phrase": "she sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind her head",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Looking room is the default: the space goes in front of the face. Break it only on purpose.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "General film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this composition (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this composition (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "rule-of-thirds",
  "negative-space",
  "screen-direction"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters (composition: left heavy, right heavy, balanced)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/composition/short-siding",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/composition/short-siding.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: the subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: the subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame 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: the subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.",
  "veo-3.1": "The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame 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."
 }
}