# Full shot

Camera / Shot size / Distance. Checked 2026-10-13.

Shows the whole body, so posture, outfit and the way someone stands carry the message.

- Use when: Fashion, uniforms and workwear, a person next to a product of human size.
- Phrase: full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/full-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/full-shot.json

## Watch out

- Without a framing rule the model crops a full figure to a portrait. Put the framing first, with a test: if the shoes are not visible, it is wrong. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Full shot, the person seen from head to shoes with a strip of floor below the feet. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/wide-shot
- Medium wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/medium-wide-shot
- Cowboy shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/cowboy-shot

## Source

Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall

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