Camera movement

In our music video we hope to include various types of camera movements. Clearly we will not be able to carry them out to the best of our ability as they are in proffessional films, but using these techniques will still help us with ideas to make our music video more interesting.

For example a dolly is a cart which travels along tracks. The camera is mounted on the dolly and records the shot as it moves, dolly shots can provide very dramatic footage.

 

Another type of movement is a pan. It is a horizontal camera movement in which the camera moves left and right about a central axis. This is a swiveling movement, i.e. mounted in a fixed location on a tripod or shoulder, rather than a dolly-like movement in which the entire mounting system moves.

Another camera movement is a tilt. It is a vertical camera movement in which the camera points up or down from a stationary location. For example, if you mount a camera on your shoulder and nod it up and down, you are tilting the camera.

The movement tracking shot is considered to be similar to a dolly shot. That is, a shot in which the camera is mounted on a cart which travels along tracks.
However tracking is often more narrowly defined as movement parallel to the action, or at least at a constant distance (e.g. the camera which travels alongside the race track in track & field events). Dollying is often defined as moving closer to or further away from the action.