In motion picture terminology, a tracking shot (also known as a dolly shot or trucking shot) is a segment in which the camera is mounted on a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails while the picture is being taken. The Film industry is built upon a large number of technologies and techniques drawing upon Photography, Stagecraft, Music, and many other disciplines One may dolly in on a stationary subject for emphasis, or dolly out, or dolly beside a moving subject (an action known as "dollying with"). Cabiria was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called "Cabiria movements" by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film; however, some smaller American and English films prior to 1914 had used the technique prior to Cabiria. This article is about Giovanni Pastrone 's 1914 silent film for the Federico Fellini film see The Nights of Cabiria. [1]
The tracking shot can include smooth movements forward, backward, along the side of the subject, or on a curve. Dollies with hydraulic arms can also smoothly "boom" or "jib" the camera several feet on a vertical axis. Tracking shots, however, cannot include complex pivoting movements, aerial shots or crane shots. [2]
Tracking shots are often confused with the long take or sequence shots. A long take is an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general usually lasting several
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When combined with a zoom, a tracking shot can become a Dolly zoom. ZOOM was an American Educational Television show, created almost entirely by Children, which aired on PBS from The dolly zoom is an unsettling in-camera Special effect that appears to undermine normal Visual perception in Film.
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