Room by room
- Kitchen: dolly to the island; overhead rise over it if the surface is styled.
- Living room: dolly from the corner; truck & pan around the fireplace; view push if there is a view.
- Primary bedroom: slow dolly toward the window or the headboard wall.
- Bathroom: tilt down from a skylight to a tub; interior reveal from the doorway.
- Staircase and hall: staircase climb; tracking down the hall.
- Tall rooms: tilt up or push & tilt.
- Exterior front: front-door approach; façade glide.
- Backyard and pool: backyard reveal; pool glide.
- The whole property: drone reveal or rise over roof, from aerial stills.
The rule behind the list
Pick the thing the clip should end on, then choose the move that gets there along a line you can photograph in three steps. If nothing in the room deserves a landing, the room may not deserve a clip.
Questions
What if I cannot decide?
The AI Listing Planner reads the folder of photos and picks the move each room can support, then tells you what to re-shoot.
Can I use the same move for every room?
A dolly in every room works and is better than none, but two or three moves across a listing keep the reel from feeling repetitive.
Read next
- How to Make a Real Estate Listing Video (Without a Videographer)A step-by-step guide to making a real estate listing video from the photos you already have: which rooms to cover, how to shoot each one, and how to cut it for the MLS and social.
- How to Make a Dolly Real Estate VideoA dolly copies the first thing a buyer does at a showing: walk in. Everything grows as the camera moves forward, so the room feels like a place you enter rather than a picture you look at.
- How Many Photos Do You Need to Make a Listing Video?The number of photos a real estate video needs when it is generated from stills: three to five per room, why three is the floor, what each photo does, and how many rooms a listing usually takes.