Medium shot, framed from the waist up, the person off-centre with a little space above the head.

Medium shot

Conversational distance: the viewer sees the face and the hands, as if talking across a table.

Use when: Interviews, talking-head ads, explainers in a creator style.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. First frame: medium shot, framed from the waist up, the person off-centre with a little space above the head Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

SubjectSetting

Watch out

For a candid creator look, keep the person at 50 to 65 percent of the frame, not 85 to 95, and avoid eye contact unless they talk to camera.measured: Director Chair field notes on image prompting (ad work)

Puts the attention on the face while the shoulders and chest still show posture.

Medium close-upPrompt

Keeps body language and the space around the person while the face stays readable.

Medium wide shotPrompt

Shows a relationship: two people and the space between them.

Two-shotPrompt

Sources

Own words, from the first Director Chair spec and Director Chair field notes on video prompting; pitfalls from the sources named per pitfall Checked 2026-10-13.

Camera Control: a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

ShotDeck: real film examples of this frame size (paid, link only)

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

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.

Camera

Frame

Light and look

People and places

Motion

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Story

Recipes

Tools

Medium shot

Prompt instructions

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