Ultimate Guide to the Dolly Zoom - Camera Movement & When to Use It Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @StudioBinder
    @StudioBinder  Год назад +31

    Chapters:
    00:00 - Introduction to Dolly Zoom Shots in Film
    00:57 - What is a Dolly Zoom?
    04:09 - Speed and Focal Length
    06:59 - Background Considerations
    08:35 - Creative Examples
    10:58 - Dolly Zoom in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
    11:47 - Dolly Zoom in Raging Bull
    13:17 - Takeaways

  • @erikbentley9005
    @erikbentley9005 Год назад +126

    The dolly zoom on sugar ray Robinson in Raging Bull gives me chills every single time. What a masterclass in camera movement, editing, acting and storytelling.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +8

      top tier filmmaking

    • @cevxj
      @cevxj Год назад

      That was my favorite, actually made me consider watching it 😂

    • @Deetalks87
      @Deetalks87 Год назад +1

      I have to agree dude, that made me feel that weird chill you get in your stomach, like when you're on a roller coaster and about to drop you know ?
      I just got that feeling in my stomach and was like omg... it felt like Sugar Ray was as scary as that roller coaster about to drop... literally... amazing...

    • @JonathanGilmer
      @JonathanGilmer Год назад

      I agree!! To think of the amount of coordination the entire crew had to have with each other in order to execute it as smoothly as they did is amazing!

  • @TheWrathfulSlayer
    @TheWrathfulSlayer Год назад +42

    The way Hitchcock used it and the way it used now shows how cinematography is such an important aspect of filmmaking!! Thank you for putting this video up StudioBinder!!

  • @kingswing00
    @kingswing00 Год назад +24

    I'm 50 years old. For years I never knew what this shot was called. Every now and then I'd bring it up in conversation to see if anyone knew. They never did. I never wanted to Google it because that seemed like cheating. I wanted to know but I wanted to stumble into it on my own but the question would pop into my head over the years and I just had to figure it out. Then, I overheard a customer talking about it at my job! I was almost afraid to confirm that the effect was indeed called a dolly zoom. It felt like once I got the answer I'd just fade out from existence lol. Now here I am watching videos on dolly zooms.

    • @youandijmh7998
      @youandijmh7998 4 месяца назад +1

      So essentially when you got the answer you felt like how the effect looks?

    • @kingswing00
      @kingswing00 4 месяца назад

      @@youandijmh7998 ha ha! Yes!

    • @kingswing00
      @kingswing00 4 месяца назад

      @@youandijmh7998 lol. Exactly

  • @electrojones
    @electrojones Год назад +35

    The dolly zoom in Jaws is the first one that really hit me. It's still one of the best uses of this shot.

  • @canadiankazz
    @canadiankazz Год назад +13

    My favourite use of the dolly zoom is to show a character's sudden fear. It's a good visual representation of that feeling of "your stomach dropping out." Jaws and The Lion King are my favourite examples. Great video!

  • @hyeioo
    @hyeioo Год назад +21

    thank you so much for including examples from animation!! i'm doing my first ever internship as a 3d animator and i've been having a hard time figuring out how to do camera layouts that weren't bland, so seeing examples with your explanation helps a TON

  • @MWB_FoolsParadisePictures
    @MWB_FoolsParadisePictures Год назад +4

    The value, detail, and clarity of information provided in this channel's videos is enough to make me want to buy their product out of sheer gratitude. Well done, folks!

  • @BBAACKE
    @BBAACKE Год назад +23

    Absolutely love the use of it in Severance elevator scenes. ♥️ So devastatingly subtle

  • @samik83
    @samik83 Год назад +19

    Still one of the best Dolly zooms is in LOTR when Frodo looks into the forest before the Nazgul come.
    It gets across the "somethings not right" feel perfectly.

  • @yeshwanthashok8032
    @yeshwanthashok8032 Год назад +24

    This video series is the best you guys made until now (previous ones were awesome too) Zeroing in on one type of shot at a time and analysing emotional impact of it with the audiece is one of the best way to learn filmmaking. Thanks for making this video. Also, can you try a video on a shot like crash zoom. Not the ones like leo's first shot in Django, the ones in most of PTA's earlier movies. Damien Chazelle's recent Babylon had many shots like that.
    PS not sure if it is a zoom or fast push in or not sure what's the name of it, but would love to know about it and try it.

  • @chriswright4677
    @chriswright4677 Год назад +16

    Another one hit out the park. Bonus to your great work; my veggie bolognaise is not as bland as I feared. Thank you, dear Studio Binder.

    • @Dancing_Alone_wRentals
      @Dancing_Alone_wRentals Год назад +1

      Not only the use of the semi-colon, but a reference to bolognaise! I comment more complete, I shall not find this week....or the remainder of this month! We are in the midst of greatness!!

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      haha enjoy!

  • @1NOnlyAdityaOfficial
    @1NOnlyAdityaOfficial Год назад +2

    Awesome video Guys . pls cover complex shots like long single take with a lots of different gear changes . thanks😊

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      Thanks for the suggestion! we did cover 1917's long takes which may interest you! ruclips.net/video/7uwjS7d4ntA/видео.html

    • @1NOnlyAdityaOfficial
      @1NOnlyAdityaOfficial Год назад

      Thanks !! Yes i Did

  • @reallyfurious
    @reallyfurious Год назад +2

    My all time favorite special effect/ camera effect ever!

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      It's a banger!

    • @reallyfurious
      @reallyfurious Год назад

      @@StudioBinder Terrific video about this wonderful effect🎬🎥

  • @charon7320
    @charon7320 Год назад

    studio binder is one of the top cinema tech channel.

  • @mmm57097
    @mmm57097 Год назад +2

    I was waiting all the video for this opening shot of Split 13:36. This is a subtle dolly Zoom but this was the most memorable for me. Thanks for the video StudioBinder it was helpful and very interesting !

  • @nad_2536
    @nad_2536 Год назад +5

    This channel is the best example that you can never finish learning

  • @SrijanAshish
    @SrijanAshish Год назад +8

    Easiest and the most efficient movement.i love it

  • @tonyclifton265
    @tonyclifton265 Год назад +1

    brilliant video essay. i cant believe content of this high quality is free to watch [dolly zoom in on my wide-eyed face]

  • @genet983
    @genet983 Год назад

    The Only You Tube Chanel That Tell All The Technic For Film Making I Love It 💯

  • @azraelle6232
    @azraelle6232 Год назад +1

    One of my favorite filmmaking techniques! Love the examples you have here, all excellent cases of the dolly zoom.

  • @rlh1984
    @rlh1984 Год назад +2

    The dolly zoom in Do the Right Thing when Radio Raheem first goes into Sal’s is one of my favorite. When I first saw it, I went back to watch it again. Surprised it wasn’t given as an example.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      Good example!

    • @brandonscullion
      @brandonscullion Год назад

      That is a good one, I'll make sure we use it if we ever do a follow up video!

  • @354Entertainment
    @354Entertainment Год назад

    The Dolly Zoom in Descent is such magnificent!

  • @Maliniasredmask
    @Maliniasredmask Год назад +9

    tbh i really love the dolly zoom, its a really cool cinimatic effect and it creates for an amazing scene for some reason-

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      It only exists in cinema!

    • @Maliniasredmask
      @Maliniasredmask Год назад

      @@StudioBinder yeah i really wanna encorporate these scenes into something im making and i wanna know how i can do it with my phone or any good cheep camera i can buy-

  • @hornet718
    @hornet718 Год назад +1

    As always, I enjoy these video lessons as each one broadens my knowledge of composing a film word by word, frame by frame. THANK YOU!!! There is one topic I would like Studio Binder to address, CAMERA SHAKE! I know from my many years of film/television, I have been aware how the camera moves to convey feeling and when the camera moves because of the elements effecting it, ie: wind, submerged in water and vehicle mounted. Can you discuss the history of the camera shake, when it is applied and when it is applied too much! I say this because I was recently watching an episode of Star Wars Mandalorian and Star Trek Picard. I like both shows (season three of Picard) but I not something very distinctive between the two: Mandalorian utilizes a very steady camera in all their scenes whether it is action or conversation situated. Picard's camera shakes in every frame making my eyes constantly refocusing to watch a simple conversation or an action sequence. Maybe I am being picky but camera shake is a very lazy way to shoot a scene when mounting the camera to a person's shoulder versus a tripod. I have heard that some filmmakers use this technique to make the view feel like they are in the scene with the actors. But what I don't understand is that no one head shakes that much to visualize what is a steady scene. I have scene this in modern television and filmmaking which has turned me off to wanting to watch the show. I would appreciate an analysis and opinion of camera shake for Studio Binder, if possible. Thank you for your time and video lesson, stay safe!

    • @puffinwrangler7557
      @puffinwrangler7557 Год назад

      totally. I couldn't watch a movie with Sean Penn and Michele Pfeiffer because of the excessive and distracting camera-shake. Shame, 'cuz those are two A-list Hollywood stars!

  • @jishnusanthosh1981
    @jishnusanthosh1981 Год назад +3

    00:16 Enthiran 🤩

  • @toritori5835
    @toritori5835 Год назад +1

    0:17 - Rajinikanth & _Enthiran (Robot)_ - Tollywood has entered the room! LOL.
    This was excellent; had me spellbound the entire time.

    • @mganesh
      @mganesh Год назад +2

      its Kollywood - Tamil movies

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      Glad you liked it!

  • @philm0graphy
    @philm0graphy Год назад +12

    no one’s gonna talk about how smooth the transition was at 10:25

  • @kelvington4182
    @kelvington4182 Год назад +1

    Wow, these are a masters level class in film making! Thank you for these!

  • @taybeats997mw
    @taybeats997mw Год назад +2

    Updated.. thanks for hard work Studio Binder

  • @susiehenders
    @susiehenders Год назад +1

    Just want to say how great this channel is 🙏 thanks

  • @poorwotan
    @poorwotan Год назад

    After so many years seeing it I can finally put a name to this effect and now know how it is done. IRL I occasionally suffer from this effect and next time I'll tell the Dr. "it's a dolly zoom"!!! Thank you for this great video!!!

  • @rayancedrichaddad1197
    @rayancedrichaddad1197 Год назад +7

    Very Inspiring. Thank you StudioBinder. The Dolly Zoom aka the Vertigo Effect is an Innovative Experimental technical process in Filmmaking very Inspiring to understand.

  • @danextra858
    @danextra858 Год назад +6

    The dolly zoom at 0:11 blew my mind!

  • @chaesare
    @chaesare Год назад +2

    Thank you again for another superb video!
    Cloning this zoom effect for dramatic purpose in many movies makes so much more sense than that poor sheep sharing the same name. Putting this cheap pun aside, I’m also convinced it should only be used rarely for very specific and the most intense moments, revelations or twists to be told within your project. Referring either to storytelling or character psychology. I’m just saying this, because modern films and even your edit shows there’s a recent overuse nowadays for just cinematic effect. Let’s bow to Hitchcock for inventing it and for using it so very pointed.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      Yes definitely should be used sparingly

  • @TheWaynos73
    @TheWaynos73 Год назад

    One of my favourite Dolly Zooms in a movie is in Road to Perdition when Jude Law’s skewed character arrives on the scene, the shot is incredible.

  • @michaelwilliams949
    @michaelwilliams949 Год назад

    This channel is perfection! I also began to feel a bit of motion sickness from this vid lol 😂

  • @frankyjonez
    @frankyjonez Год назад +2

    Whose awesome voice over is this? Can I hire you, Sir? I would gladly pay a fortune.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      he's with us haha

    • @frankyjonez
      @frankyjonez Год назад

      @@StudioBinder ok ok, but is he in movies? He sounds familiar

  • @thorgeberger8285
    @thorgeberger8285 Год назад +2

    You guys really rock! I love the stuff you make. So here‘s my first time request: In the movie ‚The Green Hornet‘ there is a split screen scene where the camera follows some actors, then it‘s divided by split screen and the actions seamless(!) continues simultaneously in different ways in the separated frames! How the hell have they made this? This would be a great explanation in one of your episodes!
    Thanks. Lot for the good work!

  • @bajanbillionaire
    @bajanbillionaire Год назад +2

    Just as I was thinking about using the dolly zoom in a scene for a short film of mine, this pops ups in my feed when I open the app. Thank you StudioBinder 🙏🏽

  • @goflyent
    @goflyent Год назад +1

    Tbe best shot of cinema, everrrr 🙌🏼🙌🏼🤤

  • @dice268926
    @dice268926 Год назад +3

    RIGHT ON TIME AS ALWAYS 💖

  • @JAProductions494
    @JAProductions494 Год назад +7

    I’ve always loved the look of the dolly zoom but I was never able to figure out how it worked. Thank you for explaining it in an easy to understand way (and that you for mentioning its somewhat amusing origins 😂)
    Brilliant video

  • @Eiderfield
    @Eiderfield Год назад +1

    10:23 What an edit!

  • @H2o3G2a
    @H2o3G2a Год назад +2

    I'm writing a script on studiobinder while watching this in the background. It's perfect

  • @sambolino44
    @sambolino44 Год назад +5

    Maybe you should do a piece on how to use creative, innovative techniques like this in such a was so as not to appear as a gimmick.

  • @dirapropa
    @dirapropa Год назад +2

    I'm here not to get to know about dolly zoom, but to get to know how to use dolly zoom in a cinematic way. You guys do it better than anyone!

  • @CornDogGamer55
    @CornDogGamer55 Год назад +1

    I'm really liking the music in the recent videos

  • @Anthonys.Perspective
    @Anthonys.Perspective 2 месяца назад

    Such a great breakdown

  • @Meta-Drew
    @Meta-Drew Год назад

    The Duellists(1977) has a really good one in its epilogue with the character Feraud walking up a hill and looking out over the landscape and the camera rises over the hill while doing a dolly in/zoom out to reveal what the character is seeing, very tasteful use of the technique.

  • @MrMejia187
    @MrMejia187 Год назад +2

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 was my first memory of how the dolly zoom impacted the scene for me.

  • @AbdallahBotan
    @AbdallahBotan Год назад

    Well done StudioBinder

  • @Orangutannmann
    @Orangutannmann Год назад +2

    Thank you Studio Binder!!!

  • @smepable
    @smepable Год назад +2

    I love two examples that werent included:
    - Lord of the Rings when Frodo and His Friends encounter the Ring wraiths for the First time the path in the Wood seems to bend from the Bad Power and danger Frodo can feel without seeing it yet.
    - WANTED Intro when the Agent summons energy before running down the hall and jumping out of the window

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      Those are good ones!

    • @brandonscullion
      @brandonscullion Год назад +1

      It was really important to me that we used examples outside of the ones used a million times in other dolly zoom videos. We did use one from Return of the King I dont see get mentioned very often though!

  • @martinrafaj9666
    @martinrafaj9666 10 месяцев назад

    11:44 thanks for letting us see the whole shooting masterpiece😂

  • @ashawesome
    @ashawesome Год назад +2

    Very good video!

  • @brandonwilkerson5813
    @brandonwilkerson5813 Год назад +2

    Could you guys do an episode on music in films? Something that explores the types of instruments used to evoke specific emotions. I think that would be very interesting

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      we covered it in our leitmotif video! ruclips.net/video/91IQJEzLHY4/видео.html

  • @KABOBkabob
    @KABOBkabob Год назад +2

    It's insane to me how many examples y'all find of things like this

    • @brandonscullion
      @brandonscullion Год назад +1

      I left no stone unturned in looking for dolly zooms. I really wanted to show more than just the examples used in all the other dolly zoom videos. There were still a good 50-60 I pulled that did not make that cut and many many more beyond that.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      it was fun research haha

  • @chez_guy
    @chez_guy Год назад

    4:25 could anyone tell me what song this is?

    • @자화상-h7y
      @자화상-h7y Год назад

      i guess it's derek & the dominos - layla (piano exit)

  • @arlesterclemons4256
    @arlesterclemons4256 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for this valuable lesson I will hold forever in the career future as a filmmaker I am forever in your debt

  • @CobaltTS
    @CobaltTS Год назад +2

    Great video

  • @tireursaucentre
    @tireursaucentre Год назад +2

    The parallax effect please. Thank you for all

  • @shramantayade3136
    @shramantayade3136 Год назад +1

    Loved it 😊

  • @Pradeep........
    @Pradeep........ Год назад +5

    0:17 Enthiran

  • @tekel2000ci
    @tekel2000ci Год назад +2

    I wonder about this movement for years and i figure out its so simple thank you mr studio binder

  • @AndyAllen-u8p
    @AndyAllen-u8p 29 дней назад

    La Haine , Goodfellas and JAWS have to be my favourite movies featuring the technique 👌🏻......

  • @zorotheeditor007
    @zorotheeditor007 Год назад +2

    Enthiran 😌🔥💥

  • @Ayogenius67
    @Ayogenius67 Год назад +1

    Thanks studio binder for this awesome video,more blessings of making more videos like this

  • @sefermemisoglu3800
    @sefermemisoglu3800 День назад

    I watched a Czeckslovak (I guess it was from Czeckslovakia) movie years ago, I can not remember the title, it was a drama of a young girl, there was one scene; where she was at the backside of the bus, probably framed in the window of the back of the bus. And when the camera focused on her face a dolly zoom performed. Imagine the bus is moving with the face of the girl, taking her “zoom-out” of the outside of the bus, inside of the bus, the camera is also moving dolly-zoom. Do you have any idea what the movie was that, the title?

  • @mohamadmisbah8330
    @mohamadmisbah8330 Год назад +1

    I saw a scene from the TV the other day where the background is still but the subject looks bigger? Is it still dolly zoom? Is that possible? I do get a vertigo effect but don't normally dolly zoom do the opposite where the background is the one moving

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      I don't think that would be a dolly zoom then, maybe it was just a push in handheld or with a dolly?

  • @abhikdas4919
    @abhikdas4919 Год назад +1

    Please make a video on how to and where to creat intermission in the script ?❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @howardron543
    @howardron543 Год назад +1

    amazing compilation of dolly zooms at the beginning

  • @sethflix
    @sethflix Год назад

    I know it's not her but that girl at 7:07 looks a lot like Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. Does anyone know the name of this actress from, Return of the Living Dead?

  • @julius-stark
    @julius-stark Год назад +1

    I knew Vertigo was the origin of the technique, but we never hear about the cinematographer who made it happen. I think of Vertigo every time I see the shot. Most recently see it in Severance to visually tell you when the characters are their other selves.

  • @oliverticalstudios
    @oliverticalstudios Год назад +1

    AMAZING!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @J0hnnyTruant
    @J0hnnyTruant Год назад +3

    Anyone know what movie is shown at 7:09?

    • @prathamkumar2755
      @prathamkumar2755 Год назад +2

      It's written in the bottom left corner 'Evil Dead 2013'

    • @ohalpin
      @ohalpin Год назад

      Resident Evil??

    • @J0hnnyTruant
      @J0hnnyTruant Год назад

      @@prathamkumar2755yup, I see it now, and I feel blind. Much appreciated.

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад

      All movies are shown in the bottom left hand corner as they appear!

  • @kamgsus
    @kamgsus Год назад +1

    id like to say I love this channel, thanks a lot for the knowledge you spread

  • @audrey-pichu222
    @audrey-pichu222 Год назад +1

    i was just doing research on the dolly zoom, and then my favourite youtube channel posts a video on it! amazing!
    edit: please cover the crash zoom next!

  • @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs
    @WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs Год назад +1

    10:31 my favorite example of the dolly zoom

  • @mganesh
    @mganesh Год назад +1

    punch at 13:27 is from which movie?

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      All films are labeled as they appear at the bottom left hand corner!

  • @Chxrgerifle
    @Chxrgerifle Год назад

    What is the song that starts playing at 4:35?

  • @nikshmenga
    @nikshmenga Год назад +2

    Good one

  • @yerzhankurmanbay
    @yerzhankurmanbay Год назад

    at 12:55 the camera comes closer to the subject not back away

  • @Kajord22
    @Kajord22 7 месяцев назад

    0:17 SUPERSTAR RAJINI🔥🔥🔥

  • @realdragon
    @realdragon 6 месяцев назад

    Honestly, the most insane camera work I've seen was in weird gmod animations

  • @willemdafreind4994
    @willemdafreind4994 Год назад +1

    I love this video series, and as a sequel to this I'd love to see a video exclusively on normal and crash zooms.

  • @bollywoodfightactionreacti9189
    @bollywoodfightactionreacti9189 Год назад +1

    Superb

  • @mmandarrinim
    @mmandarrinim Год назад

    Does anyone know what program it is at 1:46?

  • @kokomanation
    @kokomanation Год назад

    The one from Jaws is the most memorable to me

  • @EddieLensweiger
    @EddieLensweiger Год назад

    hollywwood is really the master of the technique, can you cover the style of John Woo's films next time?

  • @betz3000
    @betz3000 Год назад +1

    I'm new to film making and i'm trying to figure out how to do dolly with my low budget camera.When I do dolly effect, I lost the focus on subject as i move my camera (i'm using manual focus cuz auto focus isn't good enough) Anyone know how to guide me
    thank you

    • @StudioBinder
      @StudioBinder  Год назад +1

      a pure dolly movement might not be possible with your resources, but moving with a gimbal still gets good results. Manual focus is just a matter of practice

  • @andrewreynolds912
    @andrewreynolds912 Год назад +1

    Good job studio binder now talk about filler in story telling

  • @180_S
    @180_S Год назад

    I also love doing this with my drone

  • @Dancing_Alone_wRentals
    @Dancing_Alone_wRentals Год назад +1

    The Steven Speilburg example, overlooking the neighborhood was very very very insightful. tHanks for the video

  • @pedroesteves3018
    @pedroesteves3018 Год назад +1

    im always filming my friends with the dolly zoom technique 🤣

  • @TheARTviewer
    @TheARTviewer Год назад

    which movie is that at the end with the dolly zoom by the sniper rifle out the window?

  • @THAPAN-PAYODHI
    @THAPAN-PAYODHI Год назад +1

    Please do a video on bot camera use in cinematography.

  • @regibson23
    @regibson23 Год назад

    What was the Attica movie?

  • @ivymoore4638
    @ivymoore4638 Год назад +1

    this is a very educational video

  • @maxsvoicecollection
    @maxsvoicecollection 6 месяцев назад

    How do I write a dolly zoom in a movie script?