# Group shot

Camera / Shot size / People. Checked 2026-11-13.

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

- Use when: Team pages, events, community proof, crowd energy.
- Phrase: a group of five standing in a loose line, all faces visible and in focus, the camera at eye level a few metres back
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/group-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/group-shot.json

## 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)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

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

### Nano Banana 2

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

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: a group of five standing in a loose line, all faces visible and in focus, the camera at eye level a few metres back
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

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

### Seedance 2.5

```
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 2.0

```
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: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. A group of five standing in a loose line, all faces visible and in focus, the camera at eye level a few metres back.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
A group of five standing in a loose line, all faces visible and in focus, the camera at eye level a few metres back. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Two-shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/two-shot
- Wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/wide-shot
- Deep focus: https://directorchair.ai/focus/deep-focus

## Source

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)

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