{
 "slug": "chase-shot",
 "name": "Chase shot",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Dolly and track",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Urgency: the camera struggles to keep up with fast action.",
 "use_when": "Action, sport, a playful chase in an ad.",
 "phrase": "chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "For a camera that feels operated, describe how it fails: it lags behind, over-corrects, catches up.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting (rig wording from tested prompts)"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "url": "https://aicameramovements.com/",
   "what": "a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "name": "Chase shot",
   "text": "chase shot. Movement: follow a moving subject quickly along the action route. Speed: fast, reactive and physically close. Framing: keep the subject visible while allowing energetic reframing. End: stay connected to the subject in motion.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Dolly/Track",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 22",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Chase shot"
 ],
 "related": [
  "follow-shot",
  "handheld-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Move names and the seven groups from aicameramovements.com (names and structure only); behaviour and numbers in our own words from Director Chair field notes on video prompting and the first Director Chair spec"
 },
 "body": "## Move card\n\n- **Camera:** runs after a fast subject, close\n- **Pace:** fast and reactive\n- **Keep:** the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly\n- **Ends:** still on the subject's heels",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/chase-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/chase-shot.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels.\nReference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels.\nReference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels.\nReference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4"
 },
 "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."
 }
}