{
 "slug": "side-tracking-shot",
 "name": "Side tracking",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Dolly and track",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Shows motion as a clean line across the frame; speed and direction become graphic.",
 "use_when": "Runners, cyclists, a car passing, a person walking along a wall.",
 "phrase": "side tracking shot, the camera travels parallel to him at the same speed, he stays in profile in the middle of the frame",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Keep the direction of travel the same in every shot (always left to right) or the viewer loses track.",
   "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": "Side tracking",
   "text": "side tracking shot. Movement: move parallel beside the subject along their direction of travel. Speed: match the subject's motion. Framing: keep the subject in side profile or three-quarter profile at a stable distance. End: continue the parallel movement with clear horizontal motion.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/19-side-tracking-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Dolly/Track",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 19",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Side tracking"
 ],
 "related": [
  "tracking-shot",
  "profile-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:** travels sideways alongside the subject\n- **Pace:** the subject's speed\n- **Keep:** the subject in profile at a constant distance\n- **Ends:** still moving across the frame",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/side-tracking-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/side-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: Side tracking shot, the camera travels parallel to the subject at the same speed, the subject stays in profile in the middle of the frame. Camera: travels sideways alongside the subject. Pace: the subject's speed. Keep: the subject in profile at a constant distance. Ends: still moving across the frame.\nReference clip (Side tracking): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Side tracking shot, the camera travels parallel to the subject at the same speed, the subject stays in profile in the middle of the frame. Camera: travels sideways alongside the subject. Pace: the subject's speed. Keep: the subject in profile at a constant distance. Ends: still moving across the frame.\nReference clip (Side tracking): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Side tracking shot, the camera travels parallel to the subject at the same speed, the subject stays in profile in the middle of the frame. Camera: travels sideways alongside the subject. Pace: the subject's speed. Keep: the subject in profile at a constant distance. Ends: still moving across the frame.\nReference clip (Side tracking): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Side tracking shot, the camera travels parallel to the subject at the same speed, the subject stays in profile in the middle of the frame. Camera: travels sideways alongside the subject. Pace: the subject's speed. Keep: the subject in profile at a constant distance. Ends: still moving across the frame. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Side tracking): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/19-side-tracking-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."
 }
}