Camera Movement

Pan

• Panning is a camera movement technique that involves moving the camera horizontally to the right or left.

• With this technique you can track an object or follow any type of movement. Be very careful with jerky action though

Tilt

• The tilt shot is similar to the pan shot, but the tilt shot moves vertically.

Track

• Tracking shots involve the use of dollies to pull the camera around a scene. A tracking shot can be done hand held, using a steady cam, but they are more commonly shot with dollies.

Dolly

• The camera is put onto a which moves along a track smoothly.

• This is similar to a tracking shot.

Crane

• The Camera is put onto a crane which can move upwards.

Steadicam

• Has the freedom of a hand held shot but it has a stabilization device which smoothes out the bumpiness of it being hand held.

Hand Held

• The camera is held by the camera operator

• However they are often bumpy and unsteady shots.

Zoom

• A camera shot that changes smoothly from a long shot to a close up.

Reverse

• A single shot which moves away from the particular subject.

Camera Composition

Framing

• This is how the shot is composed and how the subjects and objects are surrounded in the shot.

Rule of thirds

• This is a compositional rule that suggest an image should be divided into nine equal parts, by two equally horizontal and vertical lines.

• At the intersections, important composition elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections.

Depth of field

• This refers to the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus on a camera.

• Deep Focus – This is a technique that uses a large depth of field

• Shallow Focus – This uses a small depth of field.

Focus Pull

• This is where the focus is changed during a shot.

• Usually adjusting focus from one subject to another subject.