# Talking head

Light and look / Colour look / By setting. Checked 2026-10-13.

The person pops from the room without anything looking graded.

- Use when: Interviews, testimonials, founder videos, documentary.
- Phrase: the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-talking-head
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/look/look-talking-head.json

## Watch out

- A tint, faded blacks, a strong split tone and grain on every pixel reads as an old phone filter, not as a grade. The work is local: face against background. (measured; The Director Chair colour grading guide (three rejected looks, 24 Sep 2026))
- A rim light that was never there cannot be added in the grade; ask for it in the prompt or set it up on the shoot. (measured; The Director Chair colour grading guide)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks. [your subject] in [your setting].
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Global look: the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Global look: the face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image. The face about a stop brighter than the wall behind, warm skin against a slightly cooler background, a thin rim of light on hair and shoulders, deep but not crushed blacks.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film frames to search by framing and lens (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film and ad stills to search by text or image (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Corporate: https://directorchair.ai/look/look-corporate
- Rim light: https://directorchair.ai/light/rim-light
- Three-quarter view: https://directorchair.ai/angle/three-quarter-view

## Source

Own synthesis in the Director Chair colour grading guide

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