# Framing label

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

One short line fixes the frame: how big, from which side, from which height, with which lens.

- Use when: The opening line of any shot prompt; a shared language between the brief and the prompt.
- Phrase: medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/composition/framing-label
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/composition/framing-label.json

## Watch out

- Sizes: close-up, medium, medium-wide, wide. Sides: front, front three-quarter, profile, rear three-quarter, back. Heights: ground level, eye level, high angle. Keep this order every time. (film-craft; Camera Control (aicameracontrol.com), its framing label read on 13 Oct 2026 by placing the subject in the 3D stage)
- Put the framing first in the prompt; without it a full figure is cropped to a portrait. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Values the Camera Control stage uses

The stage reads the framing off the 3D scene and writes it into its prompt. Its values, in our words:

- **Size**, from how much of the frame the person fills: extreme close-up, close-up, medium close-up, medium, medium-wide, wide, extreme wide. Tighter sizes are paired with more skin detail and shallower focus, wider ones with deep focus.
- **Side**: front, front three-quarter (left or right), profile (left or right), rear three-quarter (left or right), back.
- **Height**: ground level, knee level, hip level, chest level, eye level, high angle, overhead.
- **Lens**: a vertical field of view from 14 to 90 degrees, written as the nearest of 14, 18, 24, 28, 35, 50, 85, 100 or 135mm.
- **Presets**: medium, wide, close-up, low angle, high angle, over the shoulder, two shot.
- **Moves** (video): static, push in, pull out, pan, tilt, tracking, orbit, crane, handheld, crash zoom, dolly zoom, whip pan, aerial, or your own.
- **Staging**: one or two people, each placed left or right, nearer or further, and turned; a pose per person; a rule-of-thirds overlay; a shot view and a plan view from above.
- **Sheets**: a character sheet or an environment sheet can stand in for the written subject and place.

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Medium shot, front three-quarter left, eye level, 35mm. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate
- 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

- Framing first: https://directorchair.ai/composition/framing-first
- Three-quarter view: https://directorchair.ai/angle/three-quarter-view
- Rear three-quarter view: https://directorchair.ai/angle/rear-three-quarter-view
- Ground level: https://directorchair.ai/angle/ground-level

## Source

Label structure from Camera Control (aicameracontrol.com), its framing label read on 13 Oct 2026 by placing the subject in the 3D stage

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