# Pass through

Camera / Camera move / Specials. Checked 2026-10-13.

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.
- Phrase: the camera glides toward the shop window and passes through the glass into the room behind it
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/pass-through
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/pass-through.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:** travels toward a surface and through it
- **Pace:** smooth
- **Keep:** the opening or surface centred until it passes
- **Ends:** inside the space beyond

## Reference: Pass-through objects

> 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.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-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: 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
```

### Seedance 2.0

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

### Kling 3.0

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

### Veo 3.1

```
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. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Pass-through objects): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s6-pass-through-objects-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

- https://aicameramovements.com/ : a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)

## Goes well with

- Push past: https://directorchair.ai/move/push-past
- Infinite zoom: https://directorchair.ai/move/infinite-zoom
- FPV drone: https://directorchair.ai/move/fpv-drone

## 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.