What is this type of shot/edit called in the movie industry?
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February 4th, 2011
The scene is: showing different objects/characters in a scene, but you show each object/character for only a couple seconds, and then cut to the next subject.
The camera is not going to be still, it will be moving (track left to right or right to left) for each shot.
Maybe there is no name for this, but pretty much it’s going to be regular cut (A to B to C to D etc) with the camera just moving from left to right (or right to left) (Tracking shot)
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A tracking shot is when the camera is following along something that’s moving, like a person walking or a car. A pan is when the camera goes from stationary object to stationary object in a single direction, like panning across a row of glasses on a table.
As for holding the shot on each object then panning to the next, there’s no specific name for that kind of a camera movement.
I know it as a montage sequence. Can be done both while filming and in the editing phase.
I believe it would be closer to successive pans that is if the camera never stopped rolling. If the camer stopped rolling then it would be a jump cut, to go from A to B to A then to C with out panning from one to the other with out making an edit or stopping the filming. To go from A to B then to D, then back to C with out making an edit would be contiguous pans, each time you stopped on a character for them to deliver their lines it would be a different pan, like:
EXT COFFEE SHOP AFTERNOON.
MARTY, JANE, and SADIE are seated at a round table with coffee.
MARTY
Someone has to tell him, and you
(pointing to Sadie)
are better with him than any of us.
PAN to SADIE
SADIE
People I am not h-h-his favorite, I don’t care
what it looks like.
PAN to JANE
JANE
Well, seeing you get the biggest hunk of
dad’s will it seems you are the favorite.
PAN to SADIE
SADIE
(Shocked)
W-w-w-wha…..?
MARTY (OS)
Mom told us, dad is leaving the lion’s
share to you; you need to tell him…...
Something like that, each pan is an element in itself even if it ran like a train one in back of the other.
(Disclaimer the format might not be supported as it would really look with the character dialogue centered)
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