Camera Skills – Camera Moves.

Introduction.

In this lesson, we learned about camera movements.

Camera moves are simply explained as three ways to manipulate the camera to have an impact on the footage that it films:

  • Translation (movement).
  • Rotation.
  • Camera operation (changing settings like zoom and depth of field with the focal lens).

Camera Translation

Translation is moving the camera on 3 axis:

Dolly (forward and backwards) – The X axis

Truck (left and right) – Y axis

Pedestal (up and down) – Z axis

Camera Rotation

Rotation is rotating the camera on 3 axis.

pan – rotating the camera left/right (around the Y axis).

tilt – tilting the camera up/down.

roll – rotating around the x axis as if you were rolling a ball along the floor.

 

 

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