# Landscape as the setting

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

The place does half the storytelling: scale, isolation, adventure.

- Use when: Outdoor brands, travel, cars, any shot where the place is the point.
- Phrase: a slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/setting/landscape-setting
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/setting/landscape-setting.json

## Watch out

- Name the landform, the ground under the feet and the light on it; a bare place name comes back as a postcard. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Landforms to name

City street, village, mountain, jungle, swamp, beach, rocky coast, redwood forest, cave, canyon, slot canyon, rocky desert, sand dunes, savanna, an overgrown or abandoned place.

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: a slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Place: [your setting]; a slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Place: [your setting]; a slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting], a slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A slot canyon, smooth red sandstone walls rising on both sides, a thin beam of sun reaching the sandy floor. 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

- Extreme wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-wide-shot
- Location plate: https://directorchair.ai/setting/location-plate
- Scale against a person: https://directorchair.ai/composition/scale-against-person

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its environment presets)

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