tracking shot

noun

: a scene photographed from a moving dolly

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The camera glides through vast spaces with Cuarón’s trademark long tracking shots, lending ordinary rooms an almost surreal quality. Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2024 The 1988 Beetlejuice opens with a deceptively charming tracking shot and a clever visual trick. Constance Grady, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024 Long, gliding tracking shots with sophisticated camera and character blocking give way to hectic handheld movements as Terry scraps and tussles with his foes. Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024 Rage eventually gives way to riots, but Tarr’s camera remains steady as a rock, whether in gliding tracking shots or unbroken close-ups. Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024 Were there moments like that that occurred for this big tracking shot for the Deadpool Corps.? Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024 This leads me into my favorite scene in the entire movie: the Deadpool Corps.' arrival that looked like a really chaotic sequence to channel into one tracking shot. Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024 Slow, creeping zooms mimic her vision, and backward tracking shots continuously drag her into danger, her gun always drawn. Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024 There is salt shaker chaos instead of salt shaker order; the tracking shot in Season 3 isn’t of Deborah at all. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1940, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tracking shot was circa 1940

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“Tracking shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracking%20shot. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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