Steadicam
The camera moves as if worn by an operator walking through the scene, turning corners and pressing forward without the jolts of handheld.
Steadicam AI Video Prompt
Long take + Steadicam: There is no cut in this segment. The camera first sees both the left and right branches of the fork at once, then moves smoothly toward the narrow right branch Ruk has chosen. Ruk sprints up to the crates and stops, hurriedly turns to look at the group, and as he backs up, his back touches the crates first; the top crate loses its balance and tumbles down, the bottom crate slides aside toward the north wall, and only then are the wooden door behind the crates and the light through its gap revealed. Ruk first steps back to the south side to avoid the falling crates, then walks to the door through the gap on the south side of the crates. MeiHua catches up from the side of the group and reaches out to point at the door only after she sees it. The two stop in front of the door, and the other three pull up behind them; everyone goes around the fallen crates, and no one passes through the crates or through one another's bodies.
Camera Control
The camera starts above and behind the group at the fork, taking in both branches at once. It then glides forward and swings right, passes close to the oil lamp on the wall into the narrow right-hand passage, and follows Biwa toward the crates. After the crates come down, it slows and settles where it can hold the door, MeiHua and Ruk together. The path turns, speeds up and slows down, yet the frame never bounces.
A Steadicam shot suits moves that have to turn corners or thread narrow spaces, routes a dolly on tracks can't take. In the prompt, describe the camera's route: where it starts, where it turns and where it ends. Write that it moves smoothly so it doesn't come out as handheld shake, and keep the camera height consistent so people and walls in a tight passage don't grow and shrink.
When characters duck around a corner or down a narrow passage and the camera has to stay with them, draw the camera's walking route in your storyboard and create it in fuse, the AI film maker.
Story Clip
Source film EP4 Shot 2 · Tunnel · 00:10–00:19
Ruk picks the narrow passage on the right, runs to the crates at its end and turns, and the stacked crates fall aside to reveal a wooden door with light leaking around it. MeiHua walks up along the left and points at the door while the others stop behind.
What to Watch For
Follow the camera's route. It starts above and behind the group, then glides forward and turns right; passing the lamp on the wall, the image shifts from warm light to the cool dark of the narrow passage, and the camera carries on down the passage toward the crates. Through the turn and the push forward there is no shake, and speed builds and eases gradually. Once the crates are down, the camera makes only small sideways adjustments to keep MeiHua, Ruk and the door in the center of the frame.