Hitchcock-style dolly zoom

It's hard to get the movement smooth when you're dollying back 2mm a frame. This is about the best I've managed so far.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• dolly
• zoom
• hitchcock
• lego

[Mangani245]

Roy Scheider and Spielberg would be proud.

[freddo212]

your are right, yet, it's better than most dolly zooms

[LIBltdProductions]

awesome

[jimbolimboboy]

@JustJokingYou Agreed!!!! :P

[pfrenzy07]

You are half right, Hitchcock is only credited with the technique whereas his German cameraman is the one who came up with the vertigo camera technique.

[LaughingGravy31]

@JustJokingYou

No Hitchcock created the camera 'technique' but not the actual 'shot'..

The actual SHOT and usage of the actor's face being the focal point for shock and awe was first used by Steven Spielberg in Jaws.

This 'shot' should technically be called 'The Jaws shot'.

This Lego man shot is copying the Jaws shot, not the Vertigo shot. There were no humans actors in the Vertigo shot.

[JustJokingYou]

@LaughingGravy31 Yeah but everywhere you look its called the HITCHCOCK shot. He was the one who created it. Speilberg just made an alteration of it...

[LaughingGravy31]

@fulthrottle68

No worries. I just get niggled when the actual 'shot' (i.e the dolly zoom onto a character's face to amplify shock or awe etc etc) is called the 'Vertigo/Hitchcock shot'.

[fulthrottle68]

@LaughingGravy31 Alright, I'll give you that. One thing though, I don't even remember writing that comment, and it was also 9 months ago so you win.

[LaughingGravy31]

@fulthrottle68

Spielberg and Scheider have EVERYTHING to do with the creation of this particular 'shot'.

Do you know the difference between 'technique' and actual 'shot'?

In Vertigo and Marnie the reverse zoom was focused on the distance and did not focus in on a main character's face. It's the Jaws 'shot' which is endlessly imitated.

Hitchcock used it as a visual effect. Jaws used it as a characterisation.

[LaughingGravy31]

@JustJokingYou

Look, the 'technique' was from Vertigo but the actual 'shot' is from Jaws.

Hitchcock never used this technique zooming right into a character's face. James Stewart was never IN the shot in Vertigo.

In Jaws the shot zooms right into Roy Schieder's face, keeping HIM as the focus of the shot.

The 'shot' should be called the 'Jaws shot' even though the technique is from Vertigo.

Is this Lego man emulating a shot in Vertigo or Jaws? It's Jaws.

[JustJokingYou]

@jimbobago Yeah, but Hitch invented it. You should have said "Hitchcock would be proud." But either way, it's your comment, do with it what you like...