1. The Language of Film Film 2 Day 2 Camera Movement Mrs. Kelly Brown Rio Seco

2. Camera Movement Pan Tilt Zoom Tracking or Dolly Shots

3. Pan The camera moves across the horizontal axis. Usually used to introduce setting. Used from the point of view of characters as they take in their surroundings.

4. PAN Camera body turning to the right or left. On the screen, it produces a mobile framing which scans the space horizontally. A pan directly and immediately connects two places or characters, thus making us aware of their proximity. The speed at which a pan occurs can be exploited for different dramatic purposes.

5. Tilt Communicates distance, strength and size. Camera is tilted along the vertical axis. Looking up a mountain.

6. TILT The camera body swivelling upward or downward on a stationary support. Scans the space vertically. A tilt usually also implies a change in the angle of framing; High angle view – inferior Low angle – superior

7. Mobile Framing: Camera Movements Pans = rotates horizontally, side to side (“camera rotates on vertical axis”) Tilts = vertical pivot/rotation, up and down In pans & tilts, camera does not change position, it pivots or rotates. Usually tripod mounted. Dolly/tracking/traveling shots

8. Zooming The camera moves in closer on a detail in a scene. Directs the audience’s attention to a detail that is extremely important to the story

9. Mobile Framing 1.Actual Movements of Camera 2.Zooms, where Camera doesn’t move, but the frame changes as the lens focal length is changed: Zoom In or Zoom Out. (Magnifies)

10. Tracking or Dolly shots Whenever the camera actually moves, it is called a tracking or dolly shot. Most cinematic effect because we follow the action instead of watch what passes by us. “Use a chair with wheels.”

11. DOLLY SHOT A mobile framing that travels through space forward, backward, or laterally. Usually follows a character or object as it moves along the screen

12. Mobile Framing: Camera Movements Dolly, Tracking, Traveling shots: all basically the same. Sometimes people use “tracking shot” to mean a “following shot” But name “tracking shot” came from the “tracks” that dollies moved on. So, dolly and tracking interchangeable terms. Traveling shot is generally reserved for more expansive movements, taken from a vehicle. Dolly shots usually lead to LONG TAKES.

13. Dolly Shot, on Tracks

14. Camera Movement Within a Shot:  Pan- when the camera’s head is stationary, but it moves from right to left or left to right  Tilt-when the camera’s head is stationary, but it moves up and down on the vertical axis  Zoom- zoom in means to get closer, and zoom out means to get farther away from the subject  Dolly shot- refers to any time the camera itself moves, either on tracks, from a helicopter, on someone’s back, or in any other way.