Camera Movement

This reference for camera movement is from the film Pulp Fiction made a decade after the shining. If Pulp Fiction was made first I would use this reference for the example of the way the steadicam can be used. This shot tracks back with the actors in a similar way, just faster. The characters are walking towards the camera as though they are pushing it back in the same way that Jack Torrence advances on the camera. When the steadicam was invented it allowed for all sorts of new camera movement such as the ability to move in a non shaky way with the actors over long spaces with the same smoothness as having tracks but without the need for them. The steadicam was very new and The Shining was one of the first films it was used in.

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