# Insert shot

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

Shows the viewer the one object the story needs them to notice.

- Use when: A phone screen, a label, a button being pressed, the hand placing the product.
- Phrase: insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/insert-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/insert-shot.json

## Watch out

- A hand that enters from the side of the frame gets a body attached. Let it enter from the bottom edge. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)
- Generated screens and labels carry invented text. Leave the screen content out of the prompt and place the real screen in the edit. (measured; House rule)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Insert shot of a hand pressing the button, only the hand and the device in frame. [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

- Extreme close-up: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-close-up
- Point of view (POV): https://directorchair.ai/angle/pov-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.