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Understanding Camera Movement

The document discusses various types of camera movements used in filmmaking. A slow pan builds anticipation by slowly revealing details, while a whip pan creates excitement by rapidly panning between characters. A tilt shot captures verticality through vertical camera movement. A push in draws attention to details and creates tension, while a pull out de-emphasizes the subject and can show isolation or detachment. Zooms focus on subjects or details, and crash zooms create drama or comedy through very fast zooming. Camera rolls create unease by rotating the camera axis, and tracking shots follow subjects to draw attention to their movement.

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Understanding Camera Movement

The document discusses various types of camera movements used in filmmaking. A slow pan builds anticipation by slowly revealing details, while a whip pan creates excitement by rapidly panning between characters. A tilt shot captures verticality through vertical camera movement. A push in draws attention to details and creates tension, while a pull out de-emphasizes the subject and can show isolation or detachment. Zooms focus on subjects or details, and crash zooms create drama or comedy through very fast zooming. Camera rolls create unease by rotating the camera axis, and tracking shots follow subjects to draw attention to their movement.

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Understanding camera movement

Pan
Slow pan - Builds anticipation, is slow so our eyes are drawn to details on the screen
, it slowly pans around an environment building anticipation before it reveals
something.
Whip pan - Fast camera movement that creates excitement, it is also used to show a
relationship between characters In scenes by panning to and from the characters

Pan:
Whip pan:
Tilt

A tilt shot is vertical


movement (up or down)
from a fixed position, to
capture the verticality of
the films world, a tilt can be
used to reveal important
things to the story,
character, or the
environment.
push in and pull out
Push in - A camera moving closer to a character or object, used to direct our attention to
a specific detail and creates tension/suspense, puts us in the minds of the character and
what they are going through in the film.

Pull out - Opposite to push in and de-emphasises the subject. Can show isolation in a
character as it pulls us aways from them making us want to be away from them. can also
be used to show a character in an environment and just like with characters it can detach
us from a environment. We can see that in this scene in Breaking Bad at the ending of the
show our main character Walter White dies and the camera pulls away from him as we
stop following this character and we leave him to die alone.

pull out
shot:
Zoom and crash zoom

Zoom - The zoom may not be the same type of


camera movement as the other movements by it
is still movement created by camera functions.
They can be similar to pull outs and push ins,
zooming out can show an enviroment and
zooming in can focus on a subject and a specific
detail. Horror films use this a lot to create
uneasiness, just like this scene in the shining, here
we can see the camera zoom into jack to show
that he has now gone crazy and mad.
Crash zoom - a Crash zoom is very
fast camera movement which is
basically zoom but just faster, it is
mostly used for dramatic effect or to
create a comedic effect.
Camera roll

A camera roll is when a camera is


rotated with the same direction of the
lens, to create feelings of unease as it
is an uncomfortable motion. It is used
in matching a characters movement,
like moment of panic to put focus on a
characters movement or in a fight
scene to show the complex fight
moves. Or it is used to reveal a
character or location.
Tracking shot

Tracking shots follow a character/subjects movement,


when a camera is tracking a character we might think
where is the character going and what is going to
happen as it draws attention to movement and specific
actions. It is great for creating emersion for the
audience.

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