{
 "slug": "dolly-in",
 "name": "Dolly in (push in)",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Dolly and track",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Draws the viewer closer; intimacy or rising importance, with real depth.",
 "use_when": "The key line of an interview, approaching a product, entering a space.",
 "phrase": "slow push in at chest height, the camera travels straight toward her from six metres to three and a half, her face grows in the frame",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Write the move as behaviour with a start and an end (a slow straight push from six metres to three and a half). A bare move name drifts.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Higgsfield Seedance 2.5 prompting guide, read 28 Sep 2026"
  },
  {
   "text": "A slow push in tends to get more emotional weight than the bare word dolly.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "source": "A 2026 model-syntax study for a prompt builder, summarised in Director Chair field notes on video prompting, not measured by us"
  }
 ],
 "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)"
  },
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "name": "Dolly in",
   "text": "dolly in. Movement: move the camera physically forward in a straight line toward the main subject. Speed: smooth controlled push. Framing: keep camera height, lens direction and subject position consistent while distance closes. End: finish in a tighter composition.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/08-dolly-in-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Dolly/Track",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 08",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Dolly in"
 ],
 "related": [
  "dolly-out",
  "slow-zoom-in",
  "push-past"
 ],
 "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:** travels forward in a straight line toward the subject\n- **Pace:** slow and controlled\n- **Keep:** the same height and direction as the distance shrinks\n- **Ends:** a tighter frame with real depth",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/dolly-in",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/dolly-in.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Slow push in at chest height, the camera travels straight toward her from six metres to three and a half, her face grows in the frame. Camera: travels forward in a straight line toward the subject. Pace: slow and controlled. Keep: the same height and direction as the distance shrinks. Ends: a tighter frame with real depth.\nReference clip (Dolly in): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Slow push in at chest height, the camera travels straight toward her from six metres to three and a half, her face grows in the frame. Camera: travels forward in a straight line toward the subject. Pace: slow and controlled. Keep: the same height and direction as the distance shrinks. Ends: a tighter frame with real depth.\nReference clip (Dolly in): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Slow push in at chest height, the camera travels straight toward her from six metres to three and a half, her face grows in the frame. Camera: travels forward in a straight line toward the subject. Pace: slow and controlled. Keep: the same height and direction as the distance shrinks. Ends: a tighter frame with real depth.\nReference clip (Dolly in): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Slow push in at chest height, the camera travels straight toward her from six metres to three and a half, her face grows in the frame. Camera: travels forward in a straight line toward the subject. Pace: slow and controlled. Keep: the same height and direction as the distance shrinks. Ends: a tighter frame with real depth. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Dolly in): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/08-dolly-in-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."
 }
}