# Tracking shot

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

Keeps the viewer with a moving subject so the world slides past.

- Use when: Walking scenes, a product carried through a space, sport.
- Phrase: tracking shot, the camera moves alongside him at his walking pace, he stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/move/tracking-shot
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/move/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 through the scene with the subject
- **Pace:** the subject's own pace
- **Keep:** the subject in the same place in the frame
- **Ends:** still moving, the subject still placed the same

## Reference: Tracking shot

> tracking shot. Movement: move through the scene with the main subject. Speed: match the subject's pace. Framing: keep the subject consistently readable while the environment moves around them. End: maintain a clear moving composition.

Credit: AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com). Source: https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4
Clip: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4
Poster: https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-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: Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same.
Reference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: one continuous shot
Optics and camera: Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same.
Reference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. The scene is [your setting]. Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same.
Reference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-hq.mp4
```

### Veo 3.1

```
Tracking shot, the camera moves alongside the subject at the subject's walking pace, the subject stays in the same place in the frame while the street passes. Camera: travels through the scene with the subject. Pace: the subject's own pace. Keep: the subject in the same place in the frame. Ends: still moving, the subject still placed the same. [your subject] in [your setting]. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
Reference clip (Tracking shot): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/16-tracking-shot-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

## Goes well with

- Follow shot: https://directorchair.ai/move/follow-shot
- Side tracking: https://directorchair.ai/move/side-tracking-shot
- Reverse tracking (walk and talk): https://directorchair.ai/move/reverse-tracking-shot

## 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.