tracking shot

noun

Movies, Television.

1. dolly shot.

tracking shot

noun

1. a camera shot in which the cameraman follows a specific person or event in the action

Word History and Origins

Origin of tracking shot¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

But we become better acquainted with how light ripples across Johnson’s shirtless back in a tracking shot than with whatever’s going on in his character’s head.

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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.

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We’re hurled into the atmosphere with a great tracking shot down the club’s sidewalk and into a concert where teens and 20-somethings are moshing so hard that the camera gets knocked down and stumbles back to its feet.

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And he’s turning himself on as he does it, embracing whatever gets him excited to shoot a scene, from the energetic nightclub tracking shot that opens the film to pizzicato close-ups of Blanchett and Fassbender’s eyeballs that feel like his own Sergio Leone kink.

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Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath.

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