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Pass Through
A pass-through lets a virtual viewpoint traverse a solid barrier continuously while preserving its thickness and the next space.
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Pass Through
This is the default recipe for the Virtual Solid-Surface Passage 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: Declare the solid-wall crossing as virtual. Keep the wall opaque before contact, model its thickness during passage and continue on the same axis into the connected room.
Pass Through: A pass-through lets a virtual viewpoint traverse a solid barrier continuously while preserving its thickness and the next space. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Achieve impossible observation point switches while keeping spatial logic traceable.
- How it works
- Establish a common coordinate for the area before the wall, the wall thickness, and the room behind the wall. Specify the time period for passing through the wall, displaying the crossing in sections without making the entire wall transparent in advance.
- Common mistakes
- Let the obstacle fade out first before moving forward After hiding, secretly jump to an unrelated room
How to read this page
Pass Through 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.
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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：Pattern cutter behind a wall (through a slit)
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
A thick felt-lined partition hides the next room, where a pattern-cutter in a navy apron sits with a paper garment pattern spread on the table.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
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Recipe
8 seconds · single take
A thick felt-lined partition hides the next room, where a pattern-cutter in a navy apron sits with a paper garment pattern spread on the table.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Pass Through is a shot card
The full recipe for Pass Through 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.
Videos
- Panic Room: tracking shot through the house
@JohnBarkerATRM · 2020-04-10 · X
The Panic Room (2002) tracking shot through the house — the most expensive shot in the film, two weeks of work.
- Panic Room: camera through a coffee-pot handle
@shawnwines · 2023-09-03 · X
Recalls the camera moving through a coffee-pot handle in Panic Room.