Mastering Midjourney: Cinematic Prompts & Over-The-Shoulder Shots
Cinematography with Midjourney: How To Create Over-The-Shoulder (OTS) Shots
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6 min readApr 3, 2023
The over-the-shoulder (OTS) shot is one of the most effective and widely used visual storytelling techniques and a standard tool in any filmmaker’s arsenal.
With Midjourney’s latest V5 model, it’s now much easier to use this type of shot in your cinematic images. Here’s how.
What are OTS shots used for?
They are mainly (but not exclusively) used to depict conversations between two people: The camera is behind one of them and captures the scene from their point of view, with part of their shoulder and head in the out-of-focus foreground and their counterpart in the middle of the frame. The technique is often used sequentially, switching between the OTS perspectives of the two subjects, creating a dynamic interplay that effectively conveys dialogue and reactions.
