Camera moves & transitions · #07

Crane up

Lift the camera up. The camera rises while tilting down until it looks down on the person.

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Full motion specification

How the movement works

To pull away from a person at the end of a scene or to reveal how large the location is.

01Camera: rises from 1.4 m to 9 m while moving forward 0 m → 1.5 m
02Direction: tilts down to keep the person (8 m ahead) in frame; pitch = -0.86 × atan2(height - 1.0, 8 - forward), about -2.5° → -44°
03Timing: 0.5 s to 3.4 s (2.9 s), cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1))
04Subject: the person does not move; they get smaller as the camera rises, the ground grid fills the frame and the horizon leaves at the top
05Return: hold 3.4–4.2 s, then cross-fade back to the start over the last 0.5 s (one pass = 4.7 s)
06Top-right readout shows the height (↑ 1.4m → ↑ 9.0m)

Prompt

Crane up from eye level until the whole town comes into view.