ZoomZoom Skytrain movie # 8

My zoom-dolly shots, à la Alfred Hitchcock's much-imitated Vertigo technique.

from siggraph.org:

"A Zoom lens has a variable focal length and so camera "moves" can be made without actually moving the camera. Professional cinematographers use the zoom very sparingly and generally prefer to move the camera. Amateurs love the zoom and can create some very nauseating motion by combining zooms and rapid pans. A zoom changes the angle of display so spatial relationships also change.

In the movie "Vertigo", Alfred Hitchcock took advantage of this feature to create a what is now known as the vertigo shot. This involves synchronizing the movement of the subject with the zoom so that the subject is always the same size, but the background changes."

http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/animation/cameras/trad...

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