Medium Close-Up
Framed from the head to the chest, the shot lets viewers read a character's expression and her hands at the same time.
Medium Close-Up AI Video Prompt
Medium close-up: Serelya has her eyes closed, her lips moving slightly as she chants a silent spell, and a tiny glowing mark lights up on her forehead. Her hands turn one last time, her palms light up right after, and a flowing band of light stretches from her palms toward the depths of the archive shelves.
Camera Control
The camera faces Serelya, framing her from the hair bun to the chest, her face in the upper half and her hands moving through the lower edge. At this distance two things can happen at once: on her face she closes her eyes, her lips move and a mark lights up on her forehead; below, her hands cross and turn in front of her chest until her palms glow and a band of light stretches out to the left of the frame. The shelves and boxes behind her stay soft.
A medium close-up keeps the hands that a close-up would crop, which suits moments where gesture and expression matter together. Keep the hand movements inside the frame and below the face so they never cover it. For an effect that extends from the hands, like this band of light, leave room in the direction it travels; here it heads left, toward the shelves in the next shot.
When a spell, a gesture or a handover needs the face and the hands in one frame, set the shot as a medium close-up in your storyboard and generate it with the AI film maker.
Story Clip
Source film EP2 Shot 1 · Alarm · 00:09–00:14
Serelya chants silently with her eyes closed, and a small point of light appears on her forehead. Her hands cross and turn in front of her chest; after the last turn her palms light up and a band of light streams out to the left of the frame.
What to Watch For
The camera and shot size never change; everything happens on the character. Around 0.5 seconds she closes her eyes, and around one second the forehead mark lights up. Her hands keep crossing and turning in front of her chest, her palms glow at about 3.5 seconds, and in the last second the band of light pulls out from her palm toward the upper left. Notice that her face and hands stay in the frame together, which is what sets this apart from a close-up.