# Tilt up

Camera / Camera move / Pan and tilt. Checked 2026-10-13.

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.
- Phrase: tilt up from her shoes to her face, the camera stays in place and only turns upward
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/tilt-up
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/tilt-up.json

## Watch out

- Pair it with a reveal (tilt up to reveal the tower). It then reads as intent, not as drift. (unverified; A 2026 model-syntax study for a prompt builder, summarised in Director Chair field notes on video prompting, not measured by us)

## 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

## Reference: Tilt up

> tilt up. Movement: rotate the camera upward from one fixed point. Speed: smooth constant tilt. Framing: keep the vertical subject or architecture centered as the frame travels upward. End: land on the upper target.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-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: Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's 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
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's 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
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's 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
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Tilt up from the subject's shoes to the subject's 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. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Tilt up): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/04-tilt-up-hq.mp4
```

## Look further

- https://aicameramovements.com/ : a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)
- https://aicameracontrol.com/ : a free 3D stage to place the person and set the lens before you generate
- https://shotdeck.com/ : real film examples of this camera move (paid, link only)
- https://flim.ai/ : film, ad and music-video stills of this camera move (free tier, link only)

## Goes well with

- Tilt down: https://directorchair.ai/move/tilt-down
- Pedestal (up or down): https://directorchair.ai/move/pedestal
- Crane up: https://directorchair.ai/move/crane-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.