Camera Movments

 

Tracking/Panning

Panning the camera is on a fixed point and turns horizontally.  This movement is great when you want the audience to get a feel of your surroundings or to follow an object or person to see where they are going. The effect is that is reveals to the audience the surrounding and gets them to see what is going on

The tracking shot is used to follow subjects and objects in the frame and anything can be used to do this shot, when tracking it makes the audience focus on the subject while also having a chance to see the surroundings

 

 

 

Crane Aerial and Birdseye view

Crane shots are used when the shot needs to be looking down on the subjects/objects in the frame.  A crane is used to lift the camera (and operator, if bit's big enough) from low to high shooting positions or vice versa. The effect is that it again lets the audience really see what is going on in the surroundings but focusing on a certain thing they know too

 

The aerial shot is normally much higher there fore seeing even more of the surroundings like crane

 

Tilt, Roll (high and low)

Tilting is where you move the camera lens up or down. Is useful when maybe you want the audience to see what a character is wearing or to introduce a character or to show where someone is going, something you wouldn't see when in a normal shot

 

Roll is going round and round and could be used to show chaos in a shot of things aren't right for example if a character might be drunk etc
 

Zoom, Whip pan

Zooming involves changing length of the lens to make the subject appear closer or further away in the frame.  This is one of the most used camera movements.  This movement will sometimes be used to that the audience knows what the main object of that shot is or just to make the shot more interesting, Or to focuses on another subject. For example a shot of a town could zoom in to a person robbing so the audience can see it better.

 

 

Handheld, Point of view

Handheld is when the camera is being help to film. This makes the audience seem more involved with what is going on or making it more realistic, this is especially effective in horror films as the audience would feel like there there and happening to them so it could make the more scared or interested in whats going on

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