# Wide shot

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

The viewer understands the situation, the person and their surroundings, before any emotion.

- Use when: Setting up a scene, showing a product in use in its real place.
- Phrase: wide shot, the person seen head to toe with the room around them, the camera about five metres away
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/shot/wide-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/shot/wide-shot.json

## Watch out

- Faces smaller than about a tenth of the frame height stop looking like the reference person. Keep the person anonymous, or shoot from behind. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)
- Sizes in metres mean little to the model. Give scale against the person instead (the counter reaches her hip), with a contact shadow under each foot. (measured; Director Chair field notes on image prompting)

## Prompts

### Nano Banana Pro

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Establish a wide, panoramic shot that dwarfs the subject within a vast, expansive environment.
```

### Nano Banana 2

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Establish a wide, panoramic shot that dwarfs the subject within a vast, expansive environment.
```

### GPT Image 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People and framing: wide shot, the person seen head to toe with the room around them, the camera about five metres away
Exclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.
```

### Seedream 5

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Wide shot, the person seen head to toe with the room around them, the camera about five metres away.
```

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: wide shot, the person seen head to toe with the room around them, the camera about five metres away
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
First frame: wide shot, the person seen head to toe with the room around them, the camera about five metres away
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Wide shot, the person seen head to toe with the room around them, the camera about five metres away.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Wide shot, the person seen head to toe with the room around them, the camera about five metres away. [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 frame size (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this frame size (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Extreme wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-wide-shot
- Full shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/full-shot
- Medium wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/medium-wide-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.