Loop Forge

Dolly zoom

From MiniMax H3 camera shots

Frame from the Dolly zoom clip
Watch it in the video at 2:05
Resolution
1344×768
Length
124 frames, 5.17s
Steps
20, res_multistep / simple, turbo LoRA off
Seed
552013742
Ran on
RTX 5090 on RunPod

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What was wired in

  • Amber
    <Picture 1>
    AmberCharacter reference plate

The prompt

Camera and lensCamera clause

subject_definitions:
<Subject 1> is the young woman in <Picture 1>: long wavy ginger-red hair, fair skin with light freckles, wearing a cream short-sleeve t-shirt, a dark cord necklace with a metal cross pendant, high-waisted blue jeans with a brown leather belt and a small brown pouch, and woven cord wrist wraps on both wrists. Her exact facial structure, features and proportions stay identical to <Picture 1> in every frame.

summary:
[reference generation] The target video shows <Subject 1> standing still centre stage on a concert stage with tall deep-red velvet curtains, a single warm spotlight beam falling from high above, a chrome microphone on a tall stand, a drum kit on a riser behind, stacked keyboards to the left, monitor wedges, and a polished wooden stage floor reflecting the warm light, in a waist-up medium close-up, as the camera performs a dolly zoom.

retention_analysis:
<Subject 1> (appears in [Shot 1]): fully_preserved - her face, identity and clothing are held identical to <Picture 1> in every frame with zero drift.

detailed_description:
The target video is live-action and cinematic, shot on an ARRI Alexa with a Cooke S4 lens at 50mm, warm amber stage lighting with a hard spotlight from above and deep shadow beyond it, rich saturated reds.
[Shot 1] A waist-up medium close-up frames <Subject 1> standing completely still centre stage, lit by the overhead spotlight, with the microphone stand just in front of her and the red curtains, drum kit and keyboards behind her. The camera pushes in while simultaneously zooming out on the Cooke S4 lens, so that <Subject 1>'s size and position in frame stay exactly constant throughout, while the red curtains, the drum kit, the keyboards and the microphone stand behind her recede, shrink, and spread apart into much greater depth as the lens's focal length changes. As the shot plays out, <Subject 1>'s expression shifts from blank and neutral into dawning realization and slight shock: her eyes widen and focus more intensely, her brow lifts and tightens, her lips part slightly, and her breathing grows visibly shallower and faster, the change building through the middle of the shot and settling into a held, wide-eyed stillness by the end.

overall_soundscape: The quiet room tone of a large empty auditorium continues throughout, with faint distant creaks and <Subject 1>'s breathing growing faster and shallower as the shot progresses.

non_diegetic_music: A single sustained low string note swells partway through the shot, then fades toward the end.

Notes

This prompt names a Cooke S4, which is a prime, on a shot that has to zoom. It was thought to matter and turned out not to.

Shot recipe, with what the earlier attempts got wrong