Camera Tricks



This is an assortment of things the camera can do in visual media.

Compare Photography and Illustration, Various Videogame Views.

Techniques:
Related:
 * Lighting Tropes
 * Montages

Categories:
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 * Adrenaline Time
 * Alone in a Crowd
 * Astronomic Zoom
 * Background Halo
 * Between My Legs
 * Binocular Shot
 * Boom Up and Over
 * Bullet Time
 * Camera Abuse
 * Camera Chase
 * Camera Sniper
 * Chroma Key
 * Circular Drive
 * Closeup on Head
 * Color Wash
 * Cukoloris
 * Cut Apart
 * Desolation Shot
 * Discretion Shot
 * Double Vision
 * Driving a Desk
 * Dutch Angle
 * Eat the Camera
 * Eyedscreen
 * Face Framed in Shadow
 * False Camera Effects
 * Filming for Easy Dub
 * Fish Eye Lens
 * Forced Perspective
 * Framed Subject
 * Gaussian Girl
 * The Graduate Homage Shot
 * Grasp the Sun
 * Half-Empty Two-Shot
 * Hat and Coat Shot
 * Hollywood Darkness
 * Holy Backlight
 * Huddle Shot
 * In-Camera Effects
 * Impairment Shot
 * An Insert
 * Hand of Death
 * Insert Cameo
 * In-Universe Camera
 * Lens Flare
 * Long Take (info)
 * Matte Shot
 * Medium Two-Shot
 * Melting Film Effect
 * Mood Lighting
 * Unnaturally Blue Lighting
 * Mortal Wound Reveal
 * Motion Blur
 * Multi-Take Cut
 * Nostril Shot
 * The Oner
 * Orbital Kiss
 * Orbital Shot
 * Over the Shoulder
 * Overcrank
 * Pan-Up-To-The-Sky Ending
 * Picture Pastiche
 * Picture-Perfect Presentation
 * Plummet Perspective
 * Power Walk
 * Puzzle Pan
 * Rack Focus
 * Ramping Shot
 * Reaction Shot
 * Red Filter of Doom
 * Repeat Cut
 * Reveal Shot
 * Round Table Shot
 * Scream Discretion Shot
 * Screen Shake
 * Second-Person Attack
 * Shadow Discretion Shot
 * Shaky POV Cam
 * Shot Reverse Shot
 * Skyward Scream
 * Slow Motion Drop
 * Slow Motion Fall
 * Slow-Motion Pass-By
 * Snowy Screen of Death
 * Social Semi-Circle
 * The Speed of Silents
 * Split Diopter
 * Split Screen
 * Split-Screen Phone Call
 * Split-Screen Reaction
 * Stairwell Chase
 * Staggered Zoom
 * Stop Trick
 * Talking Heads
 * Three Cameras
 * Time Lapse
 * Tracking Shot
 * Epic Tracking Shot
 * Object Tracking Shot
 * Traitor Shot
 * Trunk Shot
 * Under Crank
 * Vertigo Effect
 * Visible Boom Mic
 * Walk and Talk
 * Wet for Dry
 * Whip Pan
 * Widescreen Shot

Various kinds of "Cams"

 * Arrow Cam
 * Dizzy Cam
 * Eye Cam
 * Facecam
 * Head Cam
 * Hitler Cam
 * Impending Doom POV
 * Jittercam
 * Monster Vision
 * Mouth Cam
 * Necro Cam
 * POV Cam
 * Robo Cam
 * Steadicam
 * Visual Novel Shot

Standard shot mechanics and terms

 * Depth of Field
 * Dolly
 * Focal Length
 * Motion Parallax
 * Pan
 * Pedestal
 * Tilt
 * Truck
 * Zoom

Editing

 * Aspect Ratio
 * Letterbox
 * Pan and Scan
 * Visual Compression
 * Continuity Editing
 * The Ken Burns Effect

Transitions

 * Dissolve (Mix)
 * Fade In
 * Fade Out
 * Hard Cut
 * Idiosyncratic Wipes
 * Iris Out
 * Jump Cut
 * Smash Cut
 * Split Edit
 * Strobing
 * Transition Track
 * Wipe