# Helicopter shot

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

Wide, high, sweeping: the epic overview.

- Use when: Cities, coastlines, events, big openers.
- Phrase: helicopter shot from high altitude, the camera sweeps slowly along the coastline, the town small below
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/helicopter-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/helicopter-shot.json

## 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)

## Move card

- **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: Helicopter shot

> 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.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/27-helicopter-shot-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/27-helicopter-shot-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/27-helicopter-shot-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: 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
```

### Seedance 2.0

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

### Kling 3.0

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

### Veo 3.1

```
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. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Helicopter shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/27-helicopter-shot-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

- https://aicameramovements.com/ : a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)
- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this aerial shot (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this aerial shot (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Bird's-eye view: https://directorchair.ai/angle/birds-eye-view
- Drone pull back: https://directorchair.ai/move/drone-pull-back

## 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.