Camera Movements
Camera Movements
My teacher assigned our class to recreate 7 of the camera movements that we have been studying in class including a pan, whip pan, tilt, dolly/tracking, handheld, zoom, and dolly zoom.
Whip pan – the whip pan was one of the hardest camera movements for me to get during this assignment. I knew I wanted to whip pan between two of my friends, but each time I tried I couldn’t move the camera quick enough to result in a blurred image. This was because I was trying to move my whole body instead of just the camera. So, once I realized that I needed to just move my hand, it became much easier to get a consistent blur when transitioning between my two subjects.
Zoom- This movement took me a couple tries to get completely right since I did not realize that there was an option for a zoom slider on an iPhone, so I had to adjust the zoom by pinching the screen which was difficult to do accurately for me. But, it just took me a couple retakes to do properly so it wasn’t too hard.
Pan- The pan was one of the easier shots for me to recreate. I practiced just panning between two of my friends while we were all figuring out what we were going to do for all of our shots. Once I got better at moving the camera at a proper speed and keeping the frame steady, I noticed there were a bunch of small white birds in my friend's backyard so I ran out to go get a video of them. Because I ran out, though, they began flying away which gave me a perfect opportunity to pan and follow them with the camera as they flew across the lake.
Whip pan – the whip pan was one of the hardest camera movements for me to get during this assignment. I knew I wanted to whip pan between two of my friends, but each time I tried I couldn’t move the camera quick enough to result in a blurred image. This was because I was trying to move my whole body instead of just the camera. So, once I realized that I needed to just move my hand, it became much easier to get a consistent blur when transitioning between my two subjects.
Tilt- this was a very easy movement for me to recreate. The only problem I had with this camera movement, was the first time I tried to do it, my subject left the center of the frame just slightly because I couldn’t see the screen of my phone when I tilted it high enough. This was easy to remedy though and I just did a retake and adjusted my position in relation to the tree.
Dolly/tracking- This movement took some trial and error. One of my friends had the idea to use a skateboard as our wheels. We planned originally to have one person walk in front as the subject, then another person would sit/stand on the skateboard while the last person pushed it forward (because none of us knew how to ride a skateboard). However, when we tried to complete this camera movement, we noticed that the front wheels on the skateboard were damaged which meant that when we pushed the skateboard it would veer severely off to the left. So, we abandoned the skateboard and tried a bike that my friend had in his garage. We tried to ride the bike while holding the camera steady, but this didn’t work since we couldn’t ride the bike straight enough to get a consistent tracking shot. So, we decided to walk the bike while the phone was propped up against the handle bars. This meant that we couldn’t move as fast, but It worked in making a steady image.
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