From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
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Understanding camera moves
From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
Understanding camera moves
Okay, in this movie I'm going to go over some common camera moves and give you some advice on how you can best execute and use camera moves to better tell your visual story. A static, stationary camera is a sure way to bore your audience. Camera moves like pans, tilts, and zooms go a long way to make your videos look much more dynamic and interesting. These moves are most often done from a tripod, but you can also pull them off handheld. So let's start with one of the most basic camera moves, a pan. A pan move is any movement of the camera from left to right or right to left. It's a perfect way to shift the focus of your scene from one subject to the next, to show reactions to the main character or to just transition into or out of a scene. So let's talk about executing a pan move now. Before we start, we are going to check to make sure our tripod isn't locked down. Then we are going to adjust the pan tension on the tripod. The tension controls the amount of resistance, so if you want…
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