# Chase shot

Camera / Camera move / Dolly and track. Checked 2026-10-13.

Urgency: the camera struggles to keep up with fast action.

- Use when: Action, sport, a playful chase in an ad.
- Phrase: chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/chase-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/chase-shot.json

## Watch out

- For a camera that feels operated, describe how it fails: it lags behind, over-corrects, catches up. (vendor; Director Chair field notes on video prompting (rig wording from tested prompts))

## Move card

- **Camera:** runs after a fast subject, close
- **Pace:** fast and reactive
- **Keep:** the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly
- **Ends:** still on the subject's heels

## Reference: Chase shot

> chase shot. Movement: follow a moving subject quickly along the action route. Speed: fast, reactive and physically close. Framing: keep the subject visible while allowing energetic reframing. End: stay connected to the subject in motion.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.jpg

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels.
Reference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels.
Reference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels.
Reference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Chase shot, the camera runs behind him close and low, it lags, over-corrects and catches up again. Camera: runs after a fast subject, close. Pace: fast and reactive. Keep: the subject in view while the frame reframes roughly. Ends: still on the subject's heels. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Chase shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/22-chase-shot-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

- https://aicameramovements.com/ : a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)

## Goes well with

- Follow shot: https://directorchair.ai/move/follow-shot
- Handheld: https://directorchair.ai/move/handheld-shot

## Source

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

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.