# Location plate

People and places / Setting / Building a place. Checked 2026-10-13.

An empty, consistent place that every shot of the job can reuse.

- Use when: Any scene shot in more than one generation.
- Phrase: the empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/setting/location-plate
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/setting/location-plate.json

## Watch out

- Make several candidates and pick one; the plate is then a reference in every later job. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
Details: the empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. The empty location in a wide shot, no people, the light and time of day of the scene, generated ten times and the best one kept.
```

## 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)
- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

## Goes well with

- Real location, same grade: https://directorchair.ai/setting/real-location-regrade
- Establishing shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/establishing-shot

## Source

Own words from Director Chair field notes on image prompting

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