# Shot reverse shot

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

A conversation the viewer sits inside, cutting between the two faces.

- Use when: Dialogue, interviews with two people, a customer and a salesperson.
- Phrase: two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/shot-reverse-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/shot-reverse-shot.json

## Watch out

- Keep both cameras on the same side of the line between them, or the two people seem to look the same way. (film-craft; General film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters)
- Generate both sides from the same start frame or reference set, or the room and the light change between them. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Two shots of one exchange: over his shoulder onto her face, then the reverse over her shoulder onto his face, both at the same height and lens. [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

- Over-the-shoulder shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/over-the-shoulder-shot
- Screen direction: https://directorchair.ai/composition/screen-direction
- Clean single: https://directorchair.ai/shot/single-shot

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its counter-shot preset)

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