{
 "slug": "drone-pull-back",
 "name": "Drone pull back",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Drone and crane",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Flies away from a subject to reveal the scale around it.",
 "use_when": "Endings, a person alone in a landscape, revealing the size of a site.",
 "phrase": "drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Faces smaller than about a tenth of the frame height stop looking like the reference person.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on image prompting"
  }
 ],
 "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": "Drone pull back",
   "text": "drone pull back. Movement: fly smoothly backward away from the subject or destination. Speed: controlled aerial retreat. Framing: keep the subject readable as more landscape appears. End: finish on a wider aerial composition.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Drone/Crane",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 26B",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Drone pull back"
 ],
 "related": [
  "drone-push-in",
  "dolly-out",
  "extreme-wide-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:** flies backward away from a subject\n- **Pace:** a controlled glide\n- **Keep:** the subject readable as the land around it appears\n- **Ends:** a wide aerial view",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/drone-pull-back",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/drone-pull-back.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame. Camera: flies backward away from a subject. Pace: a controlled glide. Keep: the subject readable as the land around it appears. Ends: a wide aerial view.\nReference clip (Drone pull back): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame. Camera: flies backward away from a subject. Pace: a controlled glide. Keep: the subject readable as the land around it appears. Ends: a wide aerial view.\nReference clip (Drone pull back): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame. Camera: flies backward away from a subject. Pace: a controlled glide. Keep: the subject readable as the land around it appears. Ends: a wide aerial view.\nReference clip (Drone pull back): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame. Camera: flies backward away from a subject. Pace: a controlled glide. Keep: the subject readable as the land around it appears. Ends: a wide aerial view. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Drone pull back): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-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."
 }
}