# Short siding

Frame / Composition / Placement. Checked 2026-11-13.

The person looks toward the near edge of the frame: boxed in, uneasy.

- Use when: Tension, isolation, someone cornered; the deliberate opposite of giving looking room.
- Phrase: she sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind her head
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/composition/short-siding
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/composition/short-siding.json

## Watch out

- Looking room is the default: the space goes in front of the face. Break it only on purpose. (film-craft; General film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: the subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: the subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: the subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
The subject sits on the left third looking left, toward the near edge, the empty space of the frame behind the subject's head. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this composition (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this composition (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Rule of thirds: https://directorchair.ai/composition/rule-of-thirds
- Negative space: https://directorchair.ai/composition/negative-space
- Screen direction: https://directorchair.ai/composition/screen-direction

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters (composition: left heavy, right heavy, balanced)

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