tracking shot
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tracking shot
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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One person’s humiliating nadir comes during a painful tracking shot at an outdoor party where they’re shunned like they have the plague.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
When Jack Delroy does it, we’re just admiring how cinematographer Matthew Temple captures his breakdown in a marvelous tracking shot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
When the film is buoyant, it is through its blending of diegetic music and traditional scoring to create the auditory equivalent of a tracking shot.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
He’s knocked out by Alana, instantly smitten, a thunderbolt moment that Anderson memorializes with a prodigious tracking shot that gets both the camera and the story’s juices going.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
My head leaning against the carriage window, I watch these houses roll past me like a tracking shot in a film.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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