Movement

• Pans
• Tilts
• Crane Shots
• Dolly Shots
• Zooms
• Hand-Held Shots
• Aerial Shots

Hero
 Movement
• Kinetic Symbolism
• Certain moves
connote meaning

The Return of the King

Vertigo
 Movement
• Pans
– to keep the subject
within frame--if a person
moves from one position
to another, the camera
moves horizontally to
keep the person in the
center of the
composition--these
shots emphasize the
unity of space and the
connectedness of
people and objects
within that space

Following & Reframing

 Movement
• Tilts
– these are vertical
movements of the camera
around a stationary
horizontal axis; they can be
used to keep subjects
within the frame, so they
emphasize spatial and
psychological
interrelationships
 Movement
• Crane Shots
• Jibs
 Movement
• Dolly Shots
– does not change the
focal length of lens
– The subject and the
perspective change
and objects pass by
the frame giving the
feeing of moving
through space
– Creates sense of
movement
 Movement
• Dolly Shots
 Movement
• Dolly Shots
 Movement
• Zooms
– Zooming in and out changes
the focal length
– The Viewer is brought closer
without changing perspective
– The entire image is magnified
equally. This flattens the
space and calls attention to
:
the act of filming. Used to pick
.
out a piece of detail in subject
 Movement

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 Movement
• Hand-Held Shots

The Blair Witch Project

Jaws
 Movement
• Hand-Held Shots
• Steadicam
 Movement
• Aerial Shots

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle

 Movement
• Animation
• Slow Motion
• Fast Motion
• Reverse Motion
• Freeze Frame
 Movement
• Animation
– each frame is
photographed separately
rather than continuously,
and it usually involves the
photographing of subjects
that do not move by
themselves

Wallace & Gromit:

The Curse of the Wear Rabbit

Snow White
 Movement
• Slow Motion
– this effect is created by
photographing events at a
faster rate than twenty-four
fps, then projecting the film
at a normal rate of speed

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

 Movement
• Reverse Motion
– this effect is created by
photographing an action
with the film running
reversed

Superman
 Movement
• Freeze Frame
– this effect suspends all
movement on screen; a
single image is selected
and reprinted for as many
frames as is necessary to
suggest the halting of
motion

The 400 Blows

 Movement
• Formalism/Realism
• Defined by the frame not
the stage
• Setups redefine the
“stage”

Bullitt
 Movement
• Right to left
– Movement in this direction
seems inexplicably tense
and uncomfortable

Traffic
 Movement
• Left to right
– Movement in this direction
seems psychologically
natural because the eye
tends to read a picture this
way

Midnight Cowboy
 Movement
• Away from camera
– Movement in this direction
seems to decrease
intensity and make the
character seem remote

The Third Man

 Movement
• Toward the camera
– Movement in this direction
may seem threatening if
the character is a villain but
friendly if the character is
attractive

Goodfellas & Collateral

 Movement
• Angles
• Low & close - speed
up action
• Long & high:
movement seems
slower

Raging Bull
 Movement
• Framing
• Tight vs. Long &
Medium

Joan of Arc

Bullitt
Eyes Wide Shut
• Goodfellas
Movement
• 1990
• Martin Scorcese
• Best Supporting Actor (Pesci)
• The word "fuck" is used 296
times, for an average of 2.04
fucks per minute
• The Steadicam trip through the
nightclub kitchen was a happy
accident - Scorsese had been
denied permission to go in the
front way and had to improvise
an alternative
• Watch for the Dolly/Zoom in
the diner
• Scorcese was heavily
influenced by D.W. Griffith’s
1912 film
Musketeers of Pig Alley