{
 "slug": "tracking-shot",
 "name": "Tracking shot",
 "category": "move",
 "group": "Dolly and track",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Keeps the viewer with a moving subject so the world slides past.",
 "use_when": "Walking scenes, a product carried through a space, sport.",
 "phrase": "tracking shot, the camera moves alongside him at his walking pace, he stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes",
 "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)"
  },
  {
   "site": "aicameracontrol",
   "url": "https://aicameracontrol.com/",
   "what": "a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "name": "Tracking shot",
   "text": "tracking shot. Movement: move through the scene with the main subject. Speed: match the subject's pace. Framing: keep the subject consistently readable while the environment moves around them. End: maintain a clear moving composition.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Dolly/Track",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot 16",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Tracking shot"
 ],
 "related": [
  "follow-shot",
  "side-tracking-shot",
  "reverse-tracking-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 through the scene with the subject\n- **Pace:** the subject's own pace\n- **Keep:** the subject in the same place in the frame\n- **Ends:** still moving, the subject still placed the same",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/move/tracking-shot",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/move/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: Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same.\nReference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: one continuous shot\nOptics and camera: Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same.\nReference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same.\nReference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-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."
 }
}