ABSTRACT
Moving the camera is much more than just going from one framing to another. The movement itself, the style, the trajectory, the pacing, and the timing in relation to the action all contribute to mood and feel of the shot. The camera may move to meet someone or pull back to show a wider shot. Unmotivated camera moves or zooms are distracting: they pull the audience out of the moment and make them conscious that they are watching a fiction; they do, however, have their uses, particularly in very stylized filmmaking. Motivating and timing camera moves are part of the goal of invisible technique. Just as with cutting and coverage in the master scene method, the goal is for the “tricks” to be unnoticed and not distract from the storytelling. The term rolling shot is used wherever the camera is mounted on a vehicle, either on the picture vehicle or a camera car that travels along with the picture vehicle.
