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Extreme close-up: crops the subject, picks out a detail. Veo 3.1 guide: put camera and composition first in a five-part prompt [Cinematography] + [Subject] + [Action] + [Context] + [Style & ambiance], with composition terms such as wide shot, close-up, extreme close-up, low angle, two-shot. Method (inference). Pick one size...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. Shot-size words give inconsistent framing if used loosely. Conditions. Storyboarding and prompting. Source statements (Wikibooks Movie Making Manual; open-text, not a film-school syllabus). Extreme long/wide shot: subject a tiny figure vs surroundings. Full shot: entire body, head to toe. Medium wide / medium long (3/4) shot: from the knees up. Cowboy shot: roughly mid-waist to just above head, camera often at hip level (slightly low angle) - this page's cowboy and 3/4 definitions differ from other sources that put the cowboy shot mid-thigh up. Medium shot: waist up. Medium close-up: just above head to about mid-torso. Close-up: shoulders to top of head. Extreme close-up: crops the subject, picks out a detail. Veo 3.1 guide: put camera and composition first in a five-part prompt [Cinematography] + [Subject] + [Action] + [Context] + [Style & ambiance], with composition terms such as wide shot, close-up, extreme close-up, low angle, two-shot. Method (inference). Pick one size per shot; state it as the first words ('Medium close-up, ...'); when you need continuity across a dialogue, keep singles at the same size unless an editorial reason exists; because definitions differ by source, anchor with body landmarks ('framed from the waist up') in the prompt. Limitations. Sources disagree on boundaries; no evidence in these sources about how models interpret the labels. Version/date. Wikibooks page oldid 4313350; Veo guide Oct 15, 2025.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources.\n\nLimitations: Wikibooks is an open text; a cowboy-shot discrepancy with other sources is noted but I did not fetch them. 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Shot-size words give inconsistent framing if used loosely. Conditions. Storyboarding and prompting. Source statements (Wikibooks Movie Making Manual; open-text, not a film-school syllabus). Extreme long/wide shot: subject a tiny figure vs surroundings. Full shot: entire body, head to toe. Medium wide / medium long (3/4) shot: from the knees up. Cowboy shot: roughly mid-waist to just above head, camera often at hip level (slightly low angle) - this page's cowboy and 3/4 definitions differ from other sources that put the cowboy shot mid-thigh up. Medium shot: waist up. Medium close-up: just above head to about mid-torso. Close-up: shoulders to top of head. Extreme close-up: crops the subject, picks out a detail. Veo 3.1 guide: put camera and composition first in a five-part prompt [Cinematography] + [Subject] + [Action] + [Context] + [Style & ambiance], with composition terms such as wide shot, close-up, extreme close-up, low angle, two-shot. Method (inference). 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Shot-size words give inconsistent framing if used loosely. Conditions. Storyboarding and prompting. Source statements (Wikibooks Movie Making Manual; open-text, not a film-school syllabus). Extreme long/wide shot: subject a tiny figure vs surroundings. Full shot: entire body, head to toe. Medium wide / medium long (3/4) shot: from the knees up. Cowboy shot: roughly mid-waist to just above head, camera often at hip level (slightly low angle) - this page's cowboy and 3/4 definitions differ from other sources that put the cowboy shot mid-thigh up. Medium shot: waist up. Medium close-up: just above head to about mid-torso. Close-up: shoulders to top of head. Extreme close-up: crops the subject, picks out a detail. Veo 3.1 guide: put camera and composition first in a five-part prompt [Cinematography] + [Subject] + [Action] + [Context] + [Style & ambiance], with composition terms such as wide shot, close-up, extreme close-up, low angle, two-shot. Method (inference). 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