# Interior or exterior

People and places / Setting / Building a place. Checked 2026-11-13.

The first fact of any scene: inside or outside decides where the light comes from.

- Use when: The opening of every scene line, the way a script slugline does it.
- Phrase: interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/setting/interior-exterior
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/setting/interior-exterior.json

## Watch out

- State inside or outside first, then the light source that belongs to it; a model otherwise lights an interior like a sunny day. (film-craft; General film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Place: [your setting]; interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Place: [your setting]; interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting], interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Interior, a small kitchen at night, the only light from the cooker hood. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Location plate: https://directorchair.ai/setting/location-plate
- Practical lights: https://directorchair.ai/light/practical-light
- Window light: https://directorchair.ai/light/window-light

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters

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