Camera Movement

  • Pan, Panning

Pan is a horizontal camera movement (horizontally) fromleft to right or vice versa. Fixed camera position, onlyrotated to the right and left.
Pan right (the camera moves around to the right)
Pan left (the camera moves around to the left)
Pan movement is usually done to follow the subject (the person who was walking), demonstrating a broader
perspective as a whole.
Kinds of panning:
Following pan : the camera follows the current object
Surveving pan : slow motion camera to see the views (of objects and scenery)
Interupted pan : the camera movements are smooth and then stopsabruptly with the purpose of connecting two different subjects in which the subject is separated from each other (without transitions)
Whipe pan : panning is done quickly so as not to show pictures indetail, with specific purposes (the picture looks blurred)
Do not do panning without specific intent. Seblum do panningshould first determine the starting and end point of the shot (scene)to be recorded. If we are recording a scene of someone who was walking motion, give the space a more loose in front. An empty space is called the leading space.



  • Tilt, Tilting



Tilting is a vertical camera movement, looked up from the bottom upor vice versa.

Tilt-up : look up to the topTilt down : bow downTilt motion made ​​to follow the movement of objects, to createdramatic effect, sharpen the situation.This tilt movement should be determined in advance the start point and end point shot.



  • Dolly, Track


Dolly or track is movement above tripot or dolly toward or away from the subject.
Dolly ins / tracking in : approaching the subject
Dolly out / tracking out : stay away from subjects

  • Pedestal

Pedestal is on a pedestal camera movement which can dinaikdown.Now it is widely used Porta-Jip Traveller.Pedestal ups : the camera is upgradedPedestal down : camera loweredDegan pedestal using up / down we can produce changes in visualperspective of the scene.


  • Crab

Camera movement laterally or sideways, running parallel to thesubjects that are running.Crab left (move left)Crab right (move right)


  • Crane

Crane is a camera movement over the pulley up and down.


  • Arc / ring shot

Arc is the movement of the camera rotate around the object from leftto right or vice versa.


  • Zoom

Zooming is a zoom lens movement toward or away from the opticalobject, by changing the lens focal length from a narrow perspectiveto a wide angle of view or vice versa.Zoom in : the closer the object of a long shot to close-ups (largerobjects), using the T (telephoto) on cameraZoom out : to distance the object of close-ups to long shots (the smaller the object), using the W (wide) on the camera


  • Swing

Curved camera movement to the right and left


  • Travelling shot

The movement of the camera run / sweep all objects