# Camera roll

Camera / Camera move / Specials. Checked 2026-11-13.

The horizon turns: disorientation, dream, a world tipping over.

- Use when: Dream sequences, drunk or dizzy points of view, transitions, music videos.
- Phrase: the camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while she stays centred
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/camera-roll
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/camera-roll.json

## Watch out

- Give the direction and how far it turns (a quarter turn, a full turn); an open roll keeps spinning. (practitioner; Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred.
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred.
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred.
```

### Veo 3.1

```
The camera rolls slowly clockwise around the lens axis, the horizon tipping a quarter turn while the subject stays centred. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Look further

- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this camera move (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this camera move (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Dutch angle: https://directorchair.ai/angle/dutch-angle
- Orbit: https://directorchair.ai/move/orbit
- Whip pan: https://directorchair.ai/move/whip-pan

## Source

Own words; the term from general film vocabulary, as also used in Flim's filters (its camera motion filter: zoom, pan, rotate, static)

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