A Jib Shot is a camera movement achieved using a jib or crane arm, where the camera rises, descends, or arcs through space on a counterbalanced boom. The movement creates sweeping vertical and arc-based camera motion that reveals spaces, follows vertical action, or creates dramatic perspective shifts within a single continuous shot.

Jibs range from small portable arms that provide a few feet of vertical movement to large production cranes capable of dramatic height changes and complex arcing paths. The counterbalanced design allows smooth, controlled movement that can be operated manually or with motorized remote heads for precision control. Jib shots are frequently used for establishing shots that rise up to reveal environments, intimate scenes that pull back to wider context, or dynamic movements that follow action through vertical space.

In AI video generation, jib shot terminology communicates the intended character of vertical camera movement, smooth, arcing, and deliberate rather than purely vertical elevator motion or static high angles. As AI video tools develop more sophisticated camera motion control, traditional cinematography vocabulary like jib shot provides precise language for describing the arc and quality of vertical movement desired in generated footage.