Earth zoom out

From one street to the whole planet: scale, reach, a global message.

Use when: Brands with a worldwide footprint, endings, campaign claims about scale.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: Zoom out from the shop on the corner, up through the city and the country until the earth fills the frame, the shop always in the centre. Camera: rises from street level to space. Pace: accelerating. Keep: the starting point always in the centre. Ends: the whole planet, the start point implied. Reference clip (Earth zoom out): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s4-earth-zoom-out-hq.mp4

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Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Reference clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

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Move card

Camera: Rises from street level to space
Pace: Accelerating
Keep: The starting point always in the centre
Ends: The whole planet, the start point implied

Say it like this

Zoom out from the shop on the corner, up through the city and the country until the earth fills the frame, the shop always in the centre.

Watch out

Give one main camera move per shot. Two moves at once, or orders that contradict each other, make the camera wander.vendor: Kling camera guide and ByteDance Dreamina Seedance guide, via Director Chair field notes on video prompting

The maker's card

earth zoom out. Movement: pull upward from the starting point through street, city, landscape and planet scale. Speed: rapid expanding zoom out. Framing: keep the original location centered as scale grows. End: finish on a planet-scale view with the starting point still implied at center.AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)

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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)

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.

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