# Two-shot

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

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

- Use when: Partners, a team, a host and a guest, before and after.
- Phrase: two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/two-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/two-shot.json

## Watch out

- Two real people need their own references each: face crops and a full-body crop per person. A group photo as reference makes the model invent a new scene. (measured; House rule)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Two-shot, both people framed from the waist up, side by side at the table, both faces visible. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate
- 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
- 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

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.