Body-mounted

The person is locked in frame while the world swings around them: disorientation, intensity.

Use when: Music videos, sport, a character losing control.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: Body-mounted camera fixed to his chest facing his face, he stays still in the frame while the street swings behind him. Camera: fixed to the subject's body, facing them. Pace: the body's own movement. Keep: the subject locked in frame while the world swings. Ends: the subject still fixed in frame. Reference clip (Body-mounted camera / Snorricam): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/24-snorricam-v2-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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Move card

Camera: Fixed to the subject's body, facing them
Pace: The body's own movement
Keep: The subject locked in frame while the world swings
Ends: The subject still fixed in frame

Say it like this

Body-mounted camera fixed to his chest facing his face, he stays still in the frame while the street swings behind him.

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

body-mounted Snorricam. Movement: keep the camera fixed relative to the subject's torso or face while the subject moves. Speed: match the subject's body motion. Framing: keep the subject close, centered and facing the camera as the background moves around them. End: finish with the subject still locked in frame.AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)

Feels present and real, as if someone is standing there filming.HandheldPrompt

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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