Headroom
The space above the head is measured on purpose.
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What it is for
The space above the head is one of the few framing decisions a viewer notices when it goes wrong. Too much and the subject sinks, too little and the frame feels pressed down on them.
Set on purpose it becomes a tool. Generous headroom opens a frame out and makes a person small in it. Tight headroom closes it in and adds pressure without changing the shot size.
How it works
The reliable measure is the eye line rather than the top of the head. Put the eyes on the upper third and the headroom lands correctly at almost any shot size.
Headroom shrinks as the shot tightens. A wide shot can carry a lot of space above the head, and a close-up carries very little. In a choker there is none at all, because the frame cuts the forehead.
State how much. Deliberate excess is a real choice and it reads as isolation. What reads as careless is an unplanned gap of a few percent.
When to use it
Set it explicitly on any framed person, and change it when you want to shift pressure without changing the size of the shot.
Leave it alone in an extreme close-up or a detail shot. There is no head in the frame to measure from.
Told apart from its neighbours
Lead room is the space ahead of a moving subject, measured horizontally. Headroom is the space above the head, measured vertically. Both are about where the empty space goes and they never substitute for each other.
Look space is the horizontal version for a gaze rather than movement. A frame can have correct headroom and no look space at all.
The prompt
Replace the blanks, keep the rest. Then run it on a video model.
<subject> framed with deliberate headroom, measured space above the head, eyes on the upper third
What goes wrong
Models default to a large gap above the head, which makes the subject look dropped into the bottom of the frame. Say eyes on the upper third and the gap corrects itself.
The second failure is a clipped skull when you asked for tight headroom. Say the top of the head stays in frame unless you want it cut, and say where the cut lands if you do.
Leave out
cropped head, excess space
Watch for
State how much. Too much reads as careless and none reads as aggressive.
Questions
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