Drone pull back

Flies away from a subject to reveal the scale around it.

Use when: Endings, a person alone in a landscape, revealing the size of a site.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: Drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame. Camera: flies backward away from a subject. Pace: a controlled glide. Keep: the subject readable as the land around it appears. Ends: a wide aerial view. Reference clip (Drone pull back): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4

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Reference clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

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Camera: Flies backward away from a subject
Pace: A controlled glide
Keep: The subject readable as the land around it appears
Ends: A wide aerial view

Say it like this

Drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame.

Watch out

Faces smaller than about a tenth of the frame height stop looking like the reference person.measured: Director Chair field notes on image prompting

The maker's card

drone pull back. Movement: fly smoothly backward away from the subject or destination. Speed: controlled aerial retreat. Framing: keep the subject readable as more landscape appears. End: finish on a wider aerial composition.AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)

Drone push inPrompt

Dolly outPrompt

Extreme wide shot from far away, the landscape fills the frame, one person small in the lower third.

Extreme wide shotPrompt

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

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