3 Motivated Camera Movements (#3)

          1. Prince of Egypt

This song in the movie has many tilts and pans. A great one is when Moses is running back to the palace and the camera is panning from right to left of the pillars while he runs towards the camera. I think that pan is really powerful because it’s showing how far away he is from being a prince as he’s trying his best to keep hold of it. The tilt rising up to show the giant monument of his Egyptian family as he remains small at the bottom is also significant. There are more tilts and pans in this scene, but I will leave it at those two.

      2.     Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The motivated camera movement from this scene is right at the beginning, as Brick tries to run away from his father and everything else going wrong in his life. So the camera pans as Brick hobbles away, but then the camera also adds a tilt as it continues panning in order to convey how intense their conversation is getting.

3. Pride and Prejudice

So in this scene it starts off with an extreme close-up of Elizabeth and zooms in even further to show her shock at being caught in Darcy’s home. Great use of zoom there. Then in the next shot the camera zooms slowly towards Elizabeth as she runs down the stairs, then follows her with a pan as she runs to show her speed and urgency in getting away. There are more good motivated camera movements in the scene, but I’ll just describe those two.