{
 "slug": "pedestal",
 "name": "Pedestal (up or down)",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Physical moves",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Lifts or lowers the viewer's eye line without tilting; a calm vertical reveal.",
 "use_when": "Rising from a table top to the person behind it, or lowering to a product.",
 "phrase": "pedestal up, the whole camera rises straight up from table height to her face, the lens stays level",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A tilt turns the camera; a pedestal moves it up or down and keeps the lens level. Name the one you want.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "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": "Pedestal up",
   "text": "pedestal up. Movement: move the entire camera vertically upward in a straight line. Speed: smooth constant lift. Framing: keep the lens level and pointed in the same direction during the vertical move. End: finish with the higher framing clearly readable.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/11a-pedestal-up-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Physical Moves",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 11A",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  },
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "name": "Pedestal down",
   "text": "pedestal down. Movement: move the entire camera vertically downward in a straight line. Speed: smooth constant descent. Framing: keep the lens level and pointed in the same direction during the vertical move. End: finish with the lower framing clearly readable.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/11b-pedestal-down-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Physical Moves",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 11B",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/11b-pedestal-down-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/11b-pedestal-down-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/11b-pedestal-down-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/11b-pedestal-down-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Pedestal up",
  "Pedestal down"
 ],
 "related": [
  "tilt-up",
  "crane-up"
 ],
 "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:** rises or sinks straight up or down\n- **Pace:** steady\n- **Keep:** the lens level, not tilting\n- **Ends:** the new height clearly readable",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/pedestal",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/pedestal.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Pedestal up, the whole camera rises straight up from table height to the subject's face, the lens stays level. Camera: rises or sinks straight up or down. Pace: steady. Keep: the lens level, not tilting. Ends: the new height clearly readable.\nReference clip (Pedestal up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Pedestal up, the whole camera rises straight up from table height to the subject's face, the lens stays level. Camera: rises or sinks straight up or down. Pace: steady. Keep: the lens level, not tilting. Ends: the new height clearly readable.\nReference clip (Pedestal up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Pedestal up, the whole camera rises straight up from table height to the subject's face, the lens stays level. Camera: rises or sinks straight up or down. Pace: steady. Keep: the lens level, not tilting. Ends: the new height clearly readable.\nReference clip (Pedestal up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Pedestal up, the whole camera rises straight up from table height to the subject's face, the lens stays level. Camera: rises or sinks straight up or down. Pace: steady. Keep: the lens level, not tilting. Ends: the new height clearly readable. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Pedestal up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/11a-pedestal-up-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."
 }
}