{
 "slug": "look-talking-head",
 "name": "Talking head",
 "category": "look",
 "group": "By setting",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "The person pops from the room without anything looking graded.",
 "use_when": "Interviews, testimonials, founder videos, documentary.",
 "phrase": "the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A tint, faded blacks, a strong split tone and grain on every pixel reads as an old phone filter, not as a grade. The work is local: face against background.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "The Director Chair colour grading guide (three rejected looks, 24 Sep 2026)"
  },
  {
   "text": "A rim light that was never there cannot be added in the grade; ask for it in the prompt or set it up on the shoot.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "The Director Chair colour grading guide"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "look-corporate",
  "rim-light",
  "three-quarter-view"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own synthesis in the Director Chair colour grading guide"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/look/look-talking-head",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/look/look-talking-head.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "nano-banana-2": "The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nDetails: the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks. [your subject] in [your setting].",
  "seedance-2.5": "Global look: the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks\nScene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Global look: the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks\nScene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks.",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks."
 },
 "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."
 }
}