# Drone pull back

Camera / Camera move / Drone and crane. Checked 2026-10-13.

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.
- Phrase: drone pull back, the camera flies backward and up away from the swimmer until the whole bay is in frame
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/drone-pull-back
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/drone-pull-back.json

## 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)

## Move card

- **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: Drone pull back

> 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.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-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: 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
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: 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
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. 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
```

### Veo 3.1

```
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. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Drone pull back): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/26b-drone-pull-back-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

- https://aicameramovements.com/ : a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)
- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

## Goes well with

- Drone push in: https://directorchair.ai/move/drone-push-in
- Dolly out (pull back): https://directorchair.ai/move/dolly-out
- Extreme wide shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/extreme-wide-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.