Unit 3: Camera movement

Question 1

Tilt

Answer 1

•refers to the technique of tipping the camera vertically while it remains secured to a
tripod.
•the movement can simulate a character looking up or down or
•exaggerate the vertical dimensions of an object or setting.

Question 2

Pan

Answer 2

•is the horizontal turning motion of a camera fixed to a tripod.
•a movement typically used to show an expanse of landscape (whether it be a vast canyon
or acrowded city street)

Question 3

Swish Pan

Answer 3

a pan that is executed so quickly that it produces a blurred image, indicating rapid activity
or,sometimes, the passage of time.

Question 4

Tracking shots

Answer 4

• mobile framing that travels through space forward, backward or laterally.
• is accomplished by the moving of the camera on a dolly, along a specially built track.

Question 5

Dolly

Answer 5

A camera support with wheels, used in making tracking shots.

Question 6

Crane Shot

Answer 6

A shot with a change in framing accomplished by having the camera above the ground
and moving through the air in any direction.

Question 7

Aerial shot

Answer 7

A shot filmed from an airplane or helicopter.

Question 8

Following Shot

Answer 8

A shot with framing that shifts to keep a moving figure on screen.

Question 9

Reframing

Answer 9

refers to the slight movement of the camera (tilting, panning, following) to adjust for the
figures’ movements, keeping them onscreen and centered.

Question 10

Handheld

Answer 10

The use of the camera operator’s body as a camera support, either holding it by hand or
using a harness.

Question 11

POV shots

Answer 11

shots that re-create the perspective of a character and may incorporate camera movement
or optical effects as well as camera angle to do so

Question 12

Circling Camera

Answer 12

360 degree tracking/ shot

Question 13

Push In

Answer 13

Slow camera movement (usually on a dolly or track) toward the subject

Question 14

Push Out

Answer 14

Slow camera movement away from the subject.

Question 15

Off screen space

Answer 15

A part of the story world implied by visual or sound techniques rather than being
revealed by the camera.

Question 16

Six off screen spaces

Answer 16

offscreen right
offscreen left
offscreen top
offscreen bottom
behind the set
behind the camera

Question 17

Rack Focus

Answer 17

Changing the focus from one subject to another in the same shot

Question 18

Zoom In

Answer 18

the act of changing the len’s focal length to narrow the field of a distant object,
magnifying and reframing it, often in close-up, while the camera remains stationary.

Question 19

Zoom Out

Answer 19

Reversing the action of a zoom-in, so that objects that appear close initially are distanced
and reframed as small figures.

Question 20

what is the “warp o cam”

Answer 20

tracking and zooming in opposite directions

Question 21

what is “real time”

Answer 21

imply the shot is recording actual duration