# Phone selfie

Camera / Rig / Human. Checked 2026-10-13.

Reads as a real person filming themselves: direct, unpolished, believable.

- Use when: Creator content, testimonials, social ads that must not look like ads.
- Phrase: phone held at arm's length, small wobble from the arm, tiny refocus moments, the front camera close to the face
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/rig/phone-selfie-rig
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/rig/phone-selfie-rig.json

## Watch out

- A named cinema camera in a candid prompt reads as polished editorial, an AI tell of its own. Name the phone and its flaws. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)
- For candid stills: no eye contact unless they talk to camera, the phone tilted a few degrees, the person at 50 to 65 percent of the frame. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting (ad work))

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Phone held at arm's length, small wobble from the arm, tiny refocus moments, the front camera close to the face.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Phone held at arm's length, small wobble from the arm, tiny refocus moments, the front camera close to the face.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Phone held at arm's length, small wobble from the arm, tiny refocus moments, the front camera close to the face.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Phone held at arm's length, small wobble from the arm, tiny refocus moments, the front camera close to the face. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Handheld: https://directorchair.ai/move/handheld-shot
- Point of view (POV): https://directorchair.ai/angle/pov-shot

## Source

Rig wording from tested prompts in Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from Director Chair field notes on image prompting

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