Every AI camera movement, explained and ready to paste
Crash zoom in on the subject, fast and explosive, landing hard on the detail that matters.
Slow 360° orbit clockwise around the subject, constant framing and even speed.
Aerial pull-back revealing the full scene from above, rising as it retreats.
Body-rigged camera locked to the subject, subject centered and still while the background moves behind them.
Directing recipes
Named multi-shot sequences tied to an emotional beat, not just a single movement. This is what a shot plan looks like.
The Reveal
Descending into the scene before pushing in mimics the eye settling on something before it is fully understood, so the push-in lands as a deliberate reveal rather than a jump-cut close-up.
3 shotstensionBuilding Tension
Stillness reads as calm, the handheld drift introduces unease without cutting, and the whip pan breaks the calm the instant tension needs to spike.
3 shotsintimacyIntimacy
The handheld drift keeps the shot human and imperfect, and the slow zoom closes distance gradually instead of jumping straight to a close-up, which reads as earned closeness rather than surveillance.
2 shotsaweAwe and Scale
Starting low and close establishes human scale, then pulling back and up reveals how small that human is against the landscape, which is what sells scale.
2 shotsactionChase Energy
Sustained forward motion, a sudden reorientation, and a hard punch-in stack three different kinds of urgency without repeating the same movement twice.
3 shotsgriefQuiet Grief
Pulling back gives the subject room and lets the scene breathe instead of crowding a difficult emotional moment, and the hold afterward lets it sit rather than cutting away too soon.
2 shotstriumphTriumph
The arc shows the subject from a changing angle as if the camera itself is impressed, and the rise afterward reads as the moment lifting.
2 shotsdiscoveryThe Discovery
Following from behind builds anticipation, pushing past the subject reveals what they are seeing, and the zoom lands attention on the discovery itself.
3 shotspanicFirst Person Panic
First-person view puts the viewer directly in the subject's perspective, the handheld shake keeps it visceral, and the fast zoom mimics the eye snapping to a threat.
3 shotsestablishingThe Establishing Suite
This moves from the widest possible geography down to a single subject in three deliberate steps, the classic world-then-place-then-person establishing sequence.
3 shotsNot sure which movement to use?
Answer three quick questions about your scene, its subject, and its energy, and the Shot Designer will recommend the movement (plus two alternates) that fits.
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