{
 "slug": "camera-roll",
 "name": "Camera roll",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Specials",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-11-13",
 "effect": "The horizon turns: disorientation, dream, a world tipping over.",
 "use_when": "Dream sequences, drunk or dizzy points of view, transitions, music videos.",
 "phrase": "the camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while she stays centred",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Give the direction and how far it turns (a quarter turn, a full turn); an open roll keeps spinning.",
   "evidence": "practitioner",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this camera move (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this camera move (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "dutch-angle",
  "orbit",
  "whip-pan"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its camera motion filter: zoom, pan, rotate, static)"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": {
  "slug": "orbit",
  "name": "Orbit",
  "category": "move",
  "label": "Shown with: Orbit",
  "site": "aicameramovements",
  "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
  "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/15-orbit-clockwise-hq.mp4",
  "media": {
   "video": "/media/aicameramovements/15-orbit-clockwise-hq.mp4",
   "card": "/media/aicameramovements/15-orbit-clockwise-hq-card.mp4",
   "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/15-orbit-clockwise-hq.jpg",
   "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/15-orbit-clockwise-hq-card.jpg",
   "card_poster_400": "/media/aicameramovements/15-orbit-clockwise-hq-card-400.jpg",
   "width": 1280,
   "height": 720,
   "duration": 15
  }
 },
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/camera-roll",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/camera-roll.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred.",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred.",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred.",
  "veo-3.1": "The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}