Jaws dolly zoom scene

Need this for media project.

I don't own this.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Jaws
• Beach
• Scene
• Dolly
• Zoom

[LaughingGravy31]

@LoganHenn

There is no 'industry standard' term for this shot.

The technique is just called dolly zoom.

[Toxward]

@steveblum As you zoom in, the depth of your shot gets more shallow. The opposite happens here, so I believe that the dolly is moving forward while the camera is zooming out. It goes from little depth to a very wide depth.

At least, that's my understanding of this kind of zoom.

[TempestFX]

@steveblum Pulls away.

[steveblum]

So the dolly pulls away as the camera zooms in, or vice-versa?

[LoganHenn]

@LaughingGravy31

actually the industry standard term for this type of shot is "Vertigo".

That doesn't mean its from Vertigo, it means that the shot employs a sense of vertigo.

[LaughingGravy31]

@foxontherails

"" *sigh* Look, I'm not exactly a film expert, alright?""

No need to *sigh*. I'm just correcting you.

Shot is totally different to technique.

Anybody who calls this shot 'the Hitchcock shot' is wrong.

The 'shot' is the dolly zoom in/out onto a character's face highlighting shock and awe. Hitchcock never employed that particular 'shot'. He just used the camera 'technique' in his films.

Just pointing that out.

[foxontherails]

@LaughingGravy31 *sigh* Look, I'm not exactly a film expert, alright?

[bigdplaya25]

its a hitchcock tear

[LaughingGravy31]

@foxontherails

""and it's also a Vertigo shot"

This isn't a Vertigo 'shot'. The camera 'technique' is like the one in Vertigo but the actual 'shot' (as in the focal point of the dolly zoom being Roy Scheider's face to show shock and awe) is all unique to Jaws. Well, at least Jaws started the dolly zoom into a character's face to intensify shock and awe that has been endlessly emulated.

Vertigo started the camera 'technique'. Jaws started the 'shot'.

[jazzmann16]

@foxontherails okay thank you much!