Helicopter shot

Wide, high, sweeping: the epic overview.

Use when: Cities, coastlines, events, big openers.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: Helicopter shot from high altitude, the camera sweeps slowly along the coastline, the town small below. Camera: flies high on a long, broad path. Pace: steady. Keep: the landscape or a distant subject readable at large scale. Ends: a stable high view. Reference clip (Helicopter shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/27-helicopter-shot-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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Camera: Flies high on a long, broad path
Pace: Steady
Keep: The landscape or a distant subject readable at large scale
Ends: A stable high view

Say it like this

Helicopter shot from high altitude, the camera sweeps slowly along the coastline, the town small below.

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

helicopter-style aerial shot. Movement: move from high altitude along a broad gradual flight path. Speed: steady controlled aerial motion. Framing: keep the landscape or distant moving subject readable at wide scale. End: finish on a stable high-altitude composition.AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)

Shows a whole place from high above, like a map, with people as dots.

Bird's-eye viewPrompt

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

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)

ShotDeck: real film examples of this aerial shot (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills of this aerial shot (free tier, link only)

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.

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