Video · Camera MoveNO.008 / 166

Watch: The camera stays put and tilts up like a person raising their head: first the shoes, then the face, finally the tower behind. It's a pan in the vertical direction.A line-art demo that only illustrates the technique, not finished footage.

Video · Camera Move

Tilt Up / Down摇（上下摇）

The camera stays in place and turns up or down, like a person looking up or down.

Category: Camera Move
Group: Basics
Medium: Video
Library: 008 / 166

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Prompt templates are written from how generation models usually behave and have not yet been verified one by one with real generations. “Common pitfalls” are judgment from experience, not official limits.

When to use it

Looking someone over from feet to face, the pressure of rising from a person to a tower, tilting down from the sky into a scene.

Prompt template

locked-off camera tilts up in place from the character's shoes slowly to the face; the camera does not rise, only the angle changes; even speed, settles at the end.

Sample prompt · generate a video directly

The technique comes first, followed by the scene, action, performance and duration. Paste it straight into a video model and swap in your own characters and plot.

A locked-off camera tilts up on the spot, starting on the white canvas sneakers of a girl standing at the edge of a rooftop, slowly rising to her wind-tossed hair, then up to the city towers behind her as their lights come on. The camera doesn't rise; only the lens tilts up. Even speed, 4 seconds, ending steady on the top of the tower.

Common pitfalls

It turns into a crane move, with the whole camera going up.
Tilting too fast, so details can't be seen.
The person's proportions warp during the tilt.

Parameter tips

2 to 4 s; spell out “the camera stays in place, only the lens tilts”.