{
 "slug": "pass-through",
 "name": "Pass through",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Specials",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Goes through a surface into a new space; a playful reveal.",
 "use_when": "Through a window into a room, through a product into its inside.",
 "phrase": "the camera glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Give one main camera move per shot. Two moves at once, or orders that contradict each other, make the camera wander.",
   "evidence": "vendor",
   "source": "Kling camera guide and ByteDance Dreamina Seedance guide, via Director Chair field notes on video 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)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "name": "Pass-through objects",
   "text": "pass-through movement. Movement: move forward toward a visible object, surface or barrier and continue into the space beyond. Speed: smooth centered glide. Framing: keep the opening or surface centered as the transition point. End: arrive inside the revealed space beyond.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Specials",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot S6",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Pass-through objects"
 ],
 "related": [
  "push-past",
  "infinite-zoom",
  "fpv-drone"
 ],
 "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 toward a surface and through it\n- **Pace:** smooth\n- **Keep:** the opening or surface centred until it passes\n- **Ends:** inside the space beyond",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/pass-through",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/pass-through.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 glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it. Camera: travels toward a surface and through it. Pace: smooth. Keep: the opening or surface centred until it passes. Ends: inside the space beyond.\nReference clip (Pass-through objects): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: The camera glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it. Camera: travels toward a surface and through it. Pace: smooth. Keep: the opening or surface centred until it passes. Ends: inside the space beyond.\nReference clip (Pass-through objects): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The camera glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it. Camera: travels toward a surface and through it. Pace: smooth. Keep: the opening or surface centred until it passes. Ends: inside the space beyond.\nReference clip (Pass-through objects): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "The camera glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it. Camera: travels toward a surface and through it. Pace: smooth. Keep: the opening or surface centred until it passes. Ends: inside the space beyond. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Pass-through objects): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-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."
 }
}