{
 "slug": "medium-close-up",
 "name": "Medium close-up",
 "category": "shot",
 "group": "Distance",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Puts the attention on the face while the shoulders and chest still show posture.",
 "use_when": "Testimonials, the key line of an interview, a reaction.",
 "phrase": "medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Describe the frame spatially (framed from mid-chest up). A ban such as no hands is often ignored.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "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)"
  },
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "medium-shot",
  "close-up"
 ],
 "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/medium-close-up",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/shot/medium-close-up.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame.",
  "veo-3.1": "Medium close-up, framed from mid-chest up, the eyes in the upper third of the frame. [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."
 }
}