{
 "slug": "reverse-tracking-shot",
 "name": "Reverse tracking (walk and talk)",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Dolly and track",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "The person walks toward the viewer while talking; confident, in motion, going somewhere.",
 "use_when": "Founders and presenters talking while walking, a host leading a tour.",
 "phrase": "reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of her at her walking pace, she walks and talks toward the lens, her face framed from the chest up",
 "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": "Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk",
   "text": "reverse tracking shot. Movement: move backward in front of the walking subject. Speed: match the subject's forward pace. Framing: keep front-facing face and body framing stable as the background moves behind them. End: hold a clear front-facing moving composition.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Dolly/Track",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 18",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk"
 ],
 "related": [
  "tracking-shot",
  "medium-close-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:** travels backward ahead of the walking subject\n- **Pace:** the subject's walking pace\n- **Keep:** the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind\n- **Ends:** still walking, the face toward the lens",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/reverse-tracking-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/reverse-tracking-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: Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens.\nReference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens.\nReference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens.\nReference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-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."
 }
}