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Group shot

A team, a family or a crowd reads as one body.

Use when: Team pages, events, community proof, crowd energy.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: a group of five standing in a loose line, all faces visible and in focus, the camera at eye level a few metres back Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Say it like this

A group of five standing in a loose line, all faces visible and in focus, the camera at eye level a few metres back.

Watch out

Give the number of people and how they stand; more than about five tends to come back with merged hands and faces, so check every face before using it.practitioner: Director Chair field notes on image prompting

Two-shotPrompt Wide shotPrompt Deep focus

Everything sharp from front to back; the viewer can look anywhere.

Prompt

Sources

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters and general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (the Characters filter counts people) Checked 2026-11-13.

ShotDeck: real film examples of this shot type (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills of this shot type (free tier, link only)

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.