Evolution of the Dolly Zoom from Vashi Nedomansky on Vimeo.
This weeks inspiration comes to us from No Film School. Its about a popular camera movement technique called the dolly zoom, also known as the vertigo effect. Since I am really interested in learning more about some different camera movements, I thought I’d post it. You can see more about it in the No Film School article as well, posted here.
Basically, the technique involves moving the camera in or out using a dolly, while at the same time the zoom on the lens is pulled in the opposite direction. When timed correctly, the effect of this technique is one in which the characters in the frame remain the same size while the foreground and background become compressed or de-compressed, depending on which direction the camera is traveling.
A brief tutorial on how to do this technique is also available here.