# Frame within a frame

Frame / Composition / Depth. Checked 2026-10-13.

A doorway or window frames the subject; depth and focus.

- Use when: Interiors, voyeuristic or observational shots, storytelling.
- Phrase: seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/composition/frame-within-frame
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/composition/frame-within-frame.json

## Watch out

- A viewpoint with a reason holds: say who is looking through the doorway. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Seen through the open doorway, the doorframe dark around the edges, her at the kitchen table inside. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames tagged by colour, lighting, time of day and composition (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Leading lines: https://directorchair.ai/composition/leading-lines
- Push past: https://directorchair.ai/move/push-past

## Source

Film craft, own words

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.