technique · 6 recipes
Tracking Shot (Follow Shot)
A tracking shot travels through space with a moving subject along a defined route.
Selected recipe
Car Chasing
Car Chasing is a variant of Tracking / Follow. It retains its own complete execution recipe.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Travel with the moving subject using the declared relative position and distance profile. Maintain spatial continuity; follow focus and framing without replacing travel with a stationary telephoto pan.
Tracking Shot: A tracking shot travels through space with a moving subject along a defined route. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Connect the characters' movement, pursuit, and the spatial environment into the same action segment.
- How it works
- Mark the routes of the actors and the camera, their relative positions, and distance curves. Let the ground and the fixed background prove that both are moving, with turns and stops maintaining continuity.
- Common mistakes
- The main subject marches in place while the background texture scrolls, replaced by tracking shots using a fixed telephoto lens.
How to read this page
Tracking Shot (Follow Shot) is one technique in Camera Movement. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
The clip above is one reading, made with a third-party video model. Another model, or the same model on another day, can land on a different frame. It is an example, not a promise that a prompt will match it.
The free short prompt is a starter sentence. The shot card is the timed recipe: scene, start and end frames, action, light, and color. Three sample cards are free on the site. The rest are part of GrokCine Pro. A second name for the same shot keeps its own URL and points back at this definition.
When you write a prompt, keep the one mechanism in the definition, then name the subject, the motion, and why the light is there. Do not stack a neighboring technique into the same sentence. If the name or the example is wrong, send this page's URL from the contact page.
Prompt versions
Same technique, different prompts. Version A is the latest prompt; older versions are the exact prompts that kept clips were made from. Each version shows every model that used it.
Version A · latest：White pickup · gravel farm road
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
A chase view follows a dusty white pickup with a hay bale in the bed along a gravel farm road, with no badges emphasized.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
On a gravel farm road between fields, a dusty white pickup with a hay bale in its bed drives ahead of a chasing car.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Car Chasing is a shot card
The full recipe for Car Chasing is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
Related families
- Pan Shot (Whip Pan)
Pan Shot (Whip Pan)A pan turns the camera around its vertical axis from a fixed station, changing horizontal direction without sideways travel. - Tilt Shot
Tilt ShotA tilt pitches the camera around a horizontal axis from one fixed station, changing vertical direction without changing support height. - Dolly Shot (Push In)
Dolly Shot (Push In)The camera translates on a smooth supported path, changing viewpoint and spatial overlap rather than only image scale. - Truck Shot (Trucking)
Truck Shot (Trucking)A truck translates the camera laterally relative to its viewing direction, making near and far layers move differently. - Steadicam Shot
Steadicam ShotA balanced mechanical vest-arm-sled isolates much of an operator's gait while traveling through connected spaces. - Handheld Shot
Handheld ShotHandheld support retains weighted body shifts and operator reactions instead of isolating every disturbance. - Aerial Shot (Drone Shot)
Aerial Shot (Drone Shot)An aerial view observes broad geography from an elevated flying camera, keeping a stable spatial anchor as it travels.
Seen in these film styles
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References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Wikipedia: Tracking shot
Wikipedia · Web
A shot in which the camera moves alongside the subject, often on a dolly or Steadicam.
Videos
- Children of Men: tracking shot leading to the birth
@TheCinesthetic · 2024-09-02 · X
The Children of Men tracking shot leading up to the birth.
- Goodfellas: the Copacabana entrance tracking shot
@LostInFilm · 2025-03-28 · X
The Goodfellas Copacabana entrance tracking shot.
- Paths of Glory: tracking shot as the men go over the top
@JohnBarkerATRM · 2021-03-01 · X
Paths of Glory: the long tracking shot as the men go over the top.