If your scene must balloon from intimate to epic in one breathtaking swoop, go Super Pull Out.
A Super Pull Out is an extreme backward camera move—typically achieved by dollying out or simulating the motion digitally—that starts tightly focused on a subject and dramatically expands to reveal their surroundings. In AI-generated videos, this manifests as the subject shrinking quickly while a vast environment "unfolds" or "explodes" around them. The move conveys sudden isolation, awe, or insignificance within a grander scale.
Famous example: the final shot in Fight Club (1999), where the camera pulls out from the protagonists to reveal a skyline of exploding buildings, or the pull out in The Shining maze finale.
Subject & Background Behaviour
Subject: stays centered and shrinks rapidly
Background: scales up, reveals more, often with increasing parallax
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Dolly Out (regular): smaller scale, often maintains medium framing
Zoom Out: compresses space rather than revealing it with perspective; less parallax
Dolly Zoom Out (Vertigo Effect): subject stays same size; background warps unnaturally
| Movement Type | translation |
|---|---|
| Axis/Direction | backward |
| Related Movements | dolly out zoom out |
| Used in Contexts | reveal, suspense, emotional, dreamlike, narrative emphasis |
| Motion Styles | cinematic, dramatic, immersive, surreal |
