Video · Shot SizeNO.026 / 166

Watch: The frame closes in to the waist up: face and hands are both clear. It's the most common distance for dialogue and everyday action.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Video · Shot Size

Medium Shot中景

From the waist up: both the action and the expression are clear.

Category: Shot Size
Group: Basics
Medium: Video
Library: 026 / 166

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Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Dialogue, everyday work, when you need to see hands and face at once.

Prompt template

medium shot from waist up, face and hand action both clear, background moderately soft; not a close-up.

Sample prompt · generate a video directly

The technique comes first, followed by the scene, action, performance and duration. Paste it straight into a video model and swap in your own characters and plot.

Medium shot, framed from the waist to the top of the head, both face and hands clearly visible. In the back kitchen of a noodle shop, a cook in an apron pulls noodles while turning to tell his apprentice, “Loose wrists, don't force it.” The noodles grow thinner and thinner in his hands. Background moderately blurred, 5 seconds, cut at the waist, don't film only the face.

Common pitfalls

Cutting at a joint makes the framing look careless.
Too much blur and you can't tell where the person is.

Parameter tips

Cut at the waist or hips, never at the neck or wrists.