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Posted by Martin Heffels on 01/14/06 06:46
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:02:42 -0500, Rôgêr <abuse@your.isp.com> wrote:
>Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>> I've seen it done two ways...
>> a) Zoom the camera lens while moving the camera so that
>> the background remains "constant" while the foreground
>> object grows larger. This is tricky to get just right and there is a
>> name for it which excapes me.
>
>The first time I saw that technique done right it blew me away. It was
>in the original Jaws, when Sheriff Brody was sitting on the beach and
>realized that there was a shark threat in the water with all the
>swimmers. He stayed pretty much the same size in the frame but the
>background shrank back away from him.
>
>Years before that I saw a shoestring budget student film about some
>bikers. They shot a scene from the back of a pickup and the biker would
>accelerate toward them while they zoomed to wide angle. It was pretty weird.
It is quite often called the Vertigo-effect or Hitchcock, as it was used
the first time by Hitchcock in the movie Vertigo.
cheers
-martin-
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