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Examples of tracking shot in a Sentence
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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
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First Known Use
circa 1940, in the meaning defined above
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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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