scene preset · 1 recipe
Mouth In
A mouth-in camera advances beyond a portrait so lips and teeth become the surrounding space.
Selected recipe
Mouth In
This is the default recipe for the Virtual Mouth Approach family.
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: Use stylized virtual geometry and a continuous close approach through the lip plane by only the declared short distance. Keep teeth topology stable; no fantasy throat tunnel or body horror.
Mouth In: A mouth-in camera advances beyond a portrait so lips and teeth become the surrounding space. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Used for stylized scale changes or visual transitions from outside to inside.
- How it works
- Establish coherent virtual geometry for the face, lips, and teeth, and define the endpoint depth. Approach along the axis, briefly pause after crossing the lip surface, and do not arbitrarily expand the internal space.
- Common mistakes
- Eating zoom is mistakenly called penetration Facial deformation or unrelated tunnels appear
How to read this page
Mouth In 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.
Recipe
8 seconds · single take
The view pushes into the open mouth of an adult storyteller in a market cloak, passes through darkness and emerges inside the small wooden boat from the story.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Mouth In is a shot card
The full recipe for Mouth In 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.
More in Camera Movement
References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- Blade Runner: Ridley Scott on the opening eye shot
@trygraptor · 2023-01-09 · X
Ridley Scott on the shot of an eye in Blade Runner's opening (director's commentary).
- Alien: Covenant and Blade Runner 2049: matching eye openings
@TomBeppler · 2017-11-09 · X
Alien: Covenant and Blade Runner 2049 open on the same kind of extreme close-up of an eye.