# Medium wide shot

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

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

- Use when: Two people working together, a presenter beside a product on a table.
- Phrase: medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/medium-wide-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/medium-wide-shot.json

## Watch out

- Describe where the frame cuts the body (from the knees up). A ban such as no feet tends to be ignored. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it in frame.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Medium wide shot, the person framed from the knees up, the table and what is on it 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 frame size (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this frame size (free tier, link only)
- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage that sets this value and writes it into the prompt

## Goes well with

- Full shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/full-shot
- Cowboy shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/cowboy-shot
- Medium shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/medium-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

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