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Camera moves

Dolly zoom

The background stretches or shrinks around a subject who stays the same size: dread, shock, a world tilting.

Use when
A moment of realisation or panic.

Shown with: Dolly in (push in). Clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: Dolly zoom: the camera moves toward her while the lens zooms out, she stays the same size and the background behind her stretches away. Camera: travels toward the subject while the lens widens, or the reverse. Pace: slow and continuous. Keep: the subject the same size the whole time. Ends: the background visibly stretched or squeezed.

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Move card

Camera
Travels toward the subject while the lens widens, or the reverse
Pace
Slow and continuous
Keep
The subject the same size the whole time
Ends
The background visibly stretched or squeezed

Say it like this

Dolly zoom: the camera moves toward her while the lens zooms out, she stays the same size and the background behind her stretches away.

Watch out

Related

Draws the viewer closer; intimacy or rising importance, with real depth.Dolly inPrompt Reveals context around a subject; what seemed central becomes small.Slow zoom outPrompt

Sources

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 Checked 2026-10-13.

AI Camera Movements: a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)

Camera Control: a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.