{
 "slug": "shot-reverse-shot",
 "name": "Shot reverse shot",
 "category": "shot",
 "group": "People",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "A conversation the viewer sits inside, cutting between the two faces.",
 "use_when": "Dialogue, interviews with two people, a customer and a salesperson.",
 "phrase": "two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Keep both cameras on the same side of the line between them, or the two people seem to look the same way.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "General film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters"
  },
  {
   "text": "Generate both sides from the same start frame or reference set, or the room and the light change between them.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this shot type (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this shot type (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "over-the-shoulder-shot",
  "screen-direction",
  "single-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its counter-shot preset)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/shot/shot-reverse-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/shot/shot-reverse-shot.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nFirst frame: two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens.",
  "veo-3.1": "Two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and 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."
 }
}