A Group Shot is a framing that captures multiple people together within the frame, typically used to show relationships, establish ensemble casts, document gatherings, or present collections of individuals as a unified visual unit. The framing must be wide enough to include all subjects while keeping each person visible and identifiable within the composition.

Group shots require careful attention to arrangement, depth, and visual hierarchy to ensure all subjects are presented clearly without anyone being obscured or marginalized within the frame. In professional photography and cinematography, group shots often employ staggered depth placement, varying heights, and strategic positioning to create visual interest while maintaining clarity. The challenge increases with group size, as larger groups require wider framing, more complex arrangement, and stronger lighting to maintain visibility across all subjects.

In AI image and video generation, group shots present technical challenges because models must generate multiple coherent human figures with distinct features, appropriate spatial relationships, consistent lighting, and natural poses. Specifying the number of people, their arrangement, and their relationships in the prompt helps improve results, though group shots remain one of the more demanding scenarios for current generation models to handle convincingly.