Pass through

Goes through a surface into a new space; a playful reveal.

Use when: Through a window into a room, through a product into its inside.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: The camera glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it. Camera: travels toward a surface and through it. Pace: smooth. Keep: the opening or surface centred until it passes. Ends: inside the space beyond. Reference clip (Pass-through objects): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-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: Travels toward a surface and through it
Pace: Smooth
Keep: The opening or surface centred until it passes
Ends: Inside the space beyond

Say it like this

The camera glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it.

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

pass-through movement. Movement: move forward toward a visible object, surface or barrier and continue into the space beyond. Speed: smooth centered glide. Framing: keep the opening or surface centered as the transition point. End: arrive inside the revealed space beyond.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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