{
 "slug": "cowboy-shot",
 "name": "Cowboy shot",
 "category": "shot",
 "group": "Distance",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "A confident, ready-to-act stance; the frame stops just below the hands at the hips.",
 "use_when": "Hero shots of a founder, a team lead or a character about to act.",
 "phrase": "cowboy shot, framed from mid-thigh up, hands visible at hip height, the camera slightly below eye level",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Name the cut line on the body (mid-thigh). A model that only hears the term often returns a medium shot.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "source": "Not measured yet, check on the first example"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [
  {
   "model": "nano-banana-pro",
   "phrase": "Compose a cinematic cowboy shot, framing the subject from the mid-thighs up to emphasize their stance and immediate surroundings.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "checked": "2025-12-08"
  }
 ],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this frame size (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this frame size (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "medium-wide-shot",
  "low-angle",
  "full-shot"
 ],
 "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/shot/cowboy-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/shot/cowboy-shot.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Compose a cinematic cowboy shot, framing the subject from the mid-thighs up to emphasize their stance and immediate surroundings.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Compose a cinematic cowboy shot, framing the subject from the mid-thighs up to emphasize their stance and immediate surroundings.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: cowboy shot, framed from mid-thigh up, hands visible at hip height, the camera slightly below eye level\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Cowboy shot, framed from mid-thigh up, hands visible at hip height, the camera slightly below eye level.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: cowboy shot, framed from mid-thigh up, hands visible at hip height, the camera slightly below eye level\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: cowboy shot, framed from mid-thigh up, hands visible at hip height, the camera slightly below eye level\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Cowboy shot, framed from mid-thigh up, hands visible at hip height, the camera slightly below eye level.",
  "veo-3.1": "Cowboy shot, framed from mid-thigh up, hands visible at hip height, the camera slightly below eye level. [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."
 }
}