# Clean single

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

One person alone in the frame, nobody else's shoulder in it: full attention on them.

- Use when: Interview answers, testimonials, the reaction that matters.
- Phrase: a clean single of her, only her in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/single-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/single-shot.json

## Watch out

- Name it clean when no foreground person may appear; a dialogue scene otherwise drifts into an over-the-shoulder. (film-craft; General film vocabulary, as also used in ShotDeck's filters)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: a clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. A clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: a clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: a clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. A clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
A clean single of the subject, only the subject in the frame, no one else's shoulder or head visible. [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
- Two-shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/two-shot
- Medium close-up: https://directorchair.ai/shot/medium-close-up

## 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

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