Camera Movements

Track – a shot where the camera follows someone or something along as they move through the scene

Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007)

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Crab / Truck – the sideways movement of a camera

Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

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Ped / Pedestal – a shot in which the camera raises or lowers in relation to the subject

The Green Mile (Frank Darabont, 1999)

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Pan – a horizontal movement in which the camera base remains in a fixed location while the camera turns horizontally

Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)

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Tilt – a vertical movement in which the camera base remains in a fixed location while the camera pivots vertically

Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)

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Crane – a shot taken by a camera on a moving crane or jib

High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952)

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Dolly – a shot in which the camera uses optics to focus and zoom at the same time, whilst the camera physically moves towards the subject at the same speed as the lens zooms out

Red Notice (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2021)

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Zoom – a shot where the focal length of a camera lens is adjusted to give the illusion of moving closer or further away from the subject

The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)

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Crash Zoom – a similar shot to a Zoom Shot, but executed rapidly to provide energy and impact to a reaction shot

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)

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