# Reverse tracking (walk and talk)

Camera / Camera move / Dolly and track. Checked 2026-10-13.

The person walks toward the viewer while talking; confident, in motion, going somewhere.

- Use when: Founders and presenters talking while walking, a host leading a tour.
- Phrase: reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of her at her walking pace, she walks and talks toward the lens, her face framed from the chest up
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/reverse-tracking-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/reverse-tracking-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:** travels backward ahead of the walking subject
- **Pace:** the subject's walking pace
- **Keep:** the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind
- **Ends:** still walking, the face toward the lens

## Reference: Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk

> reverse tracking shot. Movement: move backward in front of the walking subject. Speed: match the subject's forward pace. Framing: keep front-facing face and body framing stable as the background moves behind them. End: hold a clear front-facing moving composition.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-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: Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens.
Reference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens.
Reference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens.
Reference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Reverse tracking shot, the camera moves backward in front of the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject walks and talks toward the lens, the subject's face framed from the chest up. Camera: travels backward ahead of the walking subject. Pace: the subject's walking pace. Keep: the face and chest framed steadily while the street slides behind. Ends: still walking, the face toward the lens. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Reverse tracking / walk-and-talk): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/18-reverse-tracking-walk-and-talk-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

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

## Goes well with

- Tracking shot: https://directorchair.ai/move/tracking-shot
- Medium close-up: https://directorchair.ai/shot/medium-close-up

## 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.