{
 "slug": "tilt-up",
 "name": "Tilt up",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Pan and tilt",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Reveals height or importance, from a detail up to the whole.",
 "use_when": "A tall building, a person from shoes to face, a product standing upright.",
 "phrase": "tilt up from her shoes to her face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Pair it with a reveal (tilt up to reveal the tower). It then reads as intent, not as drift.",
   "evidence": "unverified",
   "source": "A 2026 model-syntax study for a prompt builder, summarised in Director Chair field notes on video prompting, not measured by us"
  }
 ],
 "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"
  },
  {
   "site": "shotdeck",
   "url": "https://shotdeck.com/",
   "what": "real film examples of this camera move (paid, link only)"
  },
  {
   "site": "flim",
   "url": "https://flim.ai/",
   "what": "film, ad and music-video stills of this camera move (free tier, link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "name": "Tilt up",
   "text": "tilt up. Movement: rotate the camera upward from one fixed point. Speed: smooth constant tilt. Framing: keep the vertical subject or architecture centered as the frame travels upward. End: land on the upper target.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Pan/Tilt",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 04",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Tilt up"
 ],
 "related": [
  "tilt-down",
  "pedestal",
  "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:** turns upward on the spot\n- **Pace:** steady\n- **Keep:** the subject or building centred as the frame climbs\n- **Ends:** the top of the thing it climbed",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/tilt-up",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/tilt-up.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward. Camera: turns upward on the spot. Pace: steady. Keep: the subject or building centred as the frame climbs. Ends: the top of the thing it climbed.\nReference clip (Tilt up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward. Camera: turns upward on the spot. Pace: steady. Keep: the subject or building centred as the frame climbs. Ends: the top of the thing it climbed.\nReference clip (Tilt up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward. Camera: turns upward on the spot. Pace: steady. Keep: the subject or building centred as the frame climbs. Ends: the top of the thing it climbed.\nReference clip (Tilt up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward. Camera: turns upward on the spot. Pace: steady. Keep: the subject or building centred as the frame climbs. Ends: the top of the thing it climbed. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Tilt up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-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."
 }
}