Name That Move
This shot has no camera movement.
Static Shot
The camera rotates left or right from a fixed position.
Pan
This shot moves with a subject as they travel through a scene.
Follow/Tracking Shot
This technique changes focal length without requiring the camera body to move.
Zoom
This movement physically moves the camera closer to emphasize a subject.
Dolly In / Push In
The entire camera physically moves closer to the subject.
Dolly In / Push In
The camera rotates upward or downward without changing its physical location.
Tilt
The camera moves sideways, generally parallel to the subject
Trucking Shot
This fast, sudden lens movement quickly magnifies or widens the image.
Crash Zoom
This movement can reveal more of the environment by physically moving away from the subject.
Dolly Out / Pull Back
The entire camera physically moves straight up or down.
Pedestal
Unlike a tilt, this movement physically raises or lowers the entire camera.
Pedestal
The camera travels around a subject, changing the background and perspective.
Orbit Shot
This technique shifts sharpness from one subject or distance to another.
Rack Focus / Focal Pull
This rotating movement can make the viewer feel confused, unstable, or disoriented.
Roll
This movement rotates the frame around the camera's lens axis.
Roll Shot
The camera moves laterally across the scene rather than rotating from a fixed position.
Trucking Shot
This curved movement travels around only part of a subject rather than necessarily making a complete circle.
Arc Shot
This effect combines physical camera movement with an opposing zoom.
Dolly Zoom
This camera-support movement can dramatically reveal a large location by changing the camera's height.
Crane / Jib
This movement circles a subject and continuously changes the viewing perspective.
Orbit Shot
The camera points upward from a fixed position. A student calls it a “pedestal up.” What movement is it actually?
Tilt Up
Instead of following from behind, the camera travels ahead of a moving subject while facing the subject.
Lead / Tracking Shot
The subject stays roughly the same size while the background perspective appears to stretch or compress dramatically.
Dolly Zoom
A filmmaker wants to shift attention from a phone in the foreground to a person in the background without moving the camera or cutting. Use this technique.
Rack Focus / Focal Pull