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People and places

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Edit

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Camera moves

Tilt up

Reveals height or importance, from a detail up to the whole.

Use when
A tall building, a person from shoes to face, a product standing upright.

Prompt instructions

Scene: [your subject] in [your setting]. Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot Optics and camera: Tilt up from her shoes to her face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward. Camera: turns upward on the spot. Pace: steady. Keep: the subject or building centred as the frame climbs. Ends: the top of the thing it climbed. Reference clip (Tilt up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4

Download reference

Seedance 2.5 reads labelled blocks with timecodes.

Reference clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.

Move card

Camera
Turns upward on the spot
Pace
Steady
Keep
The subject or building centred as the frame climbs
Ends
The top of the thing it climbed

Say it like this

Tilt up from her shoes to her face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward.

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The maker's card

Related

Lowers the attention from the context to the detail that matters.Tilt downPrompt Lifts or lowers the viewer's eye line without tilting; a calm vertical reveal.PedestalPrompt Rises above the scene: release, scale, an ending.Crane upPrompt

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)

Camera Control: a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate

ShotDeck: real film examples of this camera move (paid, link only)

Flim: film, ad and music-video stills of this camera move (free tier, link only)

For agents: this card as markdown, as JSON.