Type of Camera Movement

 

Camera Movement is a filmmaking technique that cause a change in frame or perspective through the movement of the camera. Camera movement allows cinematographers and directors to shift the audience's view without cutting. Specific types of camera movements in film also can create a psychological and emotional effect on the audience. These effects can be used to make a film more immersive and engaging.

1) Crane Shot: is taken by a camera mounted on a jib or crane that moves up and down. The terms 'jib' and 'cranes' are used interchangeably. the main function of a jib is to extend your camera out over a tripod, moving the camera up, down, left, right, or in any of those combination. These can be used to set the scene which establishes geography and the world of the story, can end film, shows or video with the classic moment, to show a large crowds or sets.

2) Static Shot: in film is a shot hat devoid of camera movement, also known as a locked-off shot, or an immobile shot. The frame can be filled with the movement of vehicles, characters, props, weather etc but the frame itself does not move in a static shot. Therefore, there are many way to used in film for locked off and stable, cleanly conveys information, movements in the frame and not movement of the frame.

3) Dolly Shot: is a specific kind of tracking shot where we follow a subject on an equipment called a dolly. A dolly is a cart that the camera is mounted on, which rolls along dolly track or on its own wheels. However, there are type of dolly shot is used in smooth and precise, dolly in towards a subject to emphasize dialogue, emotions or a moment of realization, dolly out away from a subject to capture the environment around them or emotionally disconnect.

4) Boom Shot: is a camera movement achieved through the use of crane or jib. A boom shot creates smooth, vertical camera movement by using a counter weight system. It can be used to shooting large crowds or expansive settings, establishing the geography of a scene, closing shots, and reveal shot.

5) Aerial Shot: is shot that's taken from an elevated vantage point than what is framed in the shot. Aerial shots gives viewers a deeper understanding of what is happening below, both literally and metaphorically. These were multiple name of aerial view such as bird eye view shot, raised shot , elevated shot, overhead shot.

6) Pan Shot: is horizontal movement in which the camera moves right to left from a central axis. Taken from the word 'panorama', the physical position of the camera itself does not move. The pan can also be combined with different camera movements such dolly shots or tracking shots. When to use a pan to establishes location of scene, tracks movement, elevates tension in a scene.

7) Dolly Zoom (Zolly Shot): is an in-camera effect where you dolly towards or away from a subject while zooming in the opposite direction. Also known as a zolly, this shot creates a sense of unease in the viewer, simulates a spatial warp, and can either shrink or extend distances based on the choice of direction. the example of zolly is used in the direction of dolly move, the focal length range of your lens, the speed at which you use in dolly and zoom.

8) Whip Pan Shot: or swish pan is an intentional camera rotation on the x-axis that is so fast that it creates an often disorienting blur effect. This same technique can be used when rotating the camera on the y-axis, but would then be referred to as a whip tilt. The whip pan is used in moves fast enough to blur imagery, can transition through time and space, can simulate fast moving objects or people.

9) Zoom Shot: is when the focal length of camera lens is adjusted to give the illusion of moving closer or further away from the subject. Zoom shots are done with a zoom lens, which have variable focal lengths. The most typical camera zoom types are the 'zoom in" and "zoom out". when to used in zoom for to draw attention to a specific detail in the shot, to emphasize a comedic or dramatic moment.

10) Tilt Shot: is shot that uses a cinematographic technique called tilting in which the camera stays fixed but rotates up and down on a vertical plane. Tilting is similar to the motion of an individual raising or lowering their heads. Establishing shot which bring to us into a location, downward tilts observe action over a large area, upward tilts can create psychological impression of inferiority or weakness in a character are used in tilt shot.

11) Tracking Shot: is any shot that physically moves the camera through the scene for an extended amount of time. A dolly shot is now simply any shot that takes place on a dolly, which means a dolly shot can travel in any direction. However, the used of tracking shot following in physically moves through the scene, often follows a subject or bounces around. 

12) Handheld Shot: is a shot taken with the camera being supported only by the operator's hands and shoulder. Handheld camera work entails camera shake from the operator's movements. The used of handheld shot to establish subjectivity, heighten intensity or chaos, create intimacy between the characters.