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Tracking shot is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRACKING SHOT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Tracking shot

In motion picture terminology, the term tracking shot may refer to a shot in which the camera is mounted on a camera dolly, a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails while the picture is being taken; in this case the shot is also known as a dolly shot or trucking shot. One may dolly in on a stationary subject for emphasis, or dolly out, or dolly beside a moving subject. The term may also refer to any shot in which the camera follows a subject within the frame, such as a moving actor or a moving vehicle. When using the term tracking shot in this sense, the camera may be moved in ways not involving a camera dolly, such as via a Glidecam, via handheld camera operator, or by being panned on a tripod. The Italian feature film Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone, was the first popular film to use dolly shots, which in fact were originally called "Cabiria movements" by contemporary filmmakers influenced by the film; however, some smaller American and English films had used the technique prior to Cabiria, as well as Yevgeni Bauer's The Child of the Big City, released a month prior to Cabiria.

Definition of tracking shot in the English dictionary

The definition of tracking shot in the dictionary is a camera shot in which the cameraman follows a specific person or event in the action.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRACKING SHOT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE TRACKING SHOT

action shot
approach shot
big shot
by a long shot
chip shot
drop shot
free shot
high-angle shot
lead shot
like a shot
long shot
low-angle shot
mug shot
pack shot
parting shot
penalty shot
pistol shot
rifle shot
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snap shot
to be a warning shot

Synonyms and antonyms of tracking shot in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tracking shot» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRACKING SHOT

Find out the translation of tracking shot to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tracking shot from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tracking shot» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

跟踪拍摄
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

travelling
570 millions of speakers

English

tracking shot
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ट्रैकिंग शॉट
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

لقطة تتبع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отслеживание выстрел
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acompanhamento de tiro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ট্র্যাকিং শট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

travelling
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pukulan penjejakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kamerafahrt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トラッキングショット
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

추적 샷
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tracking shot
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

theo dõi bắn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிராக்கிங் ஷாட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्रॅकिंग शॉट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Izleme atışı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

carrellata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śledzenie strzał
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відстеження постріл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

împușcat de urmărire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

shot παρακολούθησης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dop skoot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tracking shot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tracking shot
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRACKING SHOT»

Discover the use of tracking shot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tracking shot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Aesthetics and Psychology of the Cinema
The traveling (or tracking) shot can mean several different things. It describes a " moving" shot, i.e., one which records the countryside from a moving train, car, skilift, whatever. The camera remains in a fixed position and moves with the vehicle ...
Jean Mitry, 1997
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Claire Denis
More relevant, perhaps, to the tracking shot in Denis's work is Jacques Rivette's pointed criticism of a film by Gillo Pontecorvo, Kapo, in which a woman commits suicide in a concentration camp, and the film tracks forward to show the dead ...
Judith Mayne, 2005
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Cinematic Storytelling
Technically, a tracking shot occurs when the camera is mounted on a dolly and glides along tracks. This allows the camera to move smoothly along a fixed path. Much like train tracks, the camera tracks can form a linear or curved pattern.
Jennifer Van Sijll, Van Sijll Jennifer, 2005
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Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro
Tracking Shot Tracking shots, dolly shots, crab shots (named after the “crab dolly” ), and truck shots are various synonyms for shots that begin in one physical location and move along the ground to another. You can use a tracking shot to ...
Michael Wohl, 2002
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Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through ...
An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture Slavoj Žižek. Holbein's Ambassadors, the Hitchcockian tracking shot would advance from the total area of the picture toward the erected, "phallic" element in the background that must ...
Slavoj Žižek, 1992
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Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic
It encapsulated what not to do, a mantra to be invoked whenever he had a compositional decision to make: ''Do not do what Pontecorvo does in the tracking shot in Kapo.'' Daney put it economically years later, in a memoir in which he recalled ...
Jacques Lezra, 2010
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Film Techniques: Film Editing, Sound Effect, Tracking Shot, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
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The Collected Writings of Takahiko Iimura
The tracking shot temporarily stops above the fifth group's stones, then pans down slightly, and fixes staringly at the middle of the stone, which has the shape of a trapezium. The reason for the pan down is to isolate the fifth group's stones, ...
Takahiko Iimura, 2007
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Wandering Women in French Film and Literature: A Study of ...
The camera does not follow Mona's every movement, even in a lateral tracking shot whose movement is traditionally motivated by that of the primary character in the scene, and thus she is afforded a certain autonomy in her own life's story.
Mariah Devereux Herbeck, 2013
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Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance ...
Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog (1955) Griselda Pollock, Maxim Silverman. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. Serge Daney, 'The Tracking Shot in Kapò', in Postcards from the Cinema, trans. Paul Douglas ...
Griselda Pollock, Maxim Silverman, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRACKING SHOT»

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Luminato's My One Demand: A single tracking shot, a livestream …
And most startlingly – and, okay, riskily – it will comprise a single tracking shot that begins at Toronto General Hospital, travels eastward, lopes south along River ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
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Incredible “Birdman”-like Tracking-Shot Timelapse of Earth from Space
The Academy Award winning film “Birdman” used what's called tracking shot to ... which links two timelapse shots seamlessly,” Selmes told Universe Today. «Universe Today, Feb 15»
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The long tracking shot to nowhere: Why flashy camera work shouldn …
In December, as part of Grantland's year-end “What We Saw” series, editor Chris Ryan penned an ode to the tracking shot. The technique, he wrote, “just feels ... «Salon, Feb 15»
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Let's Take A Look Behind The Fantastic Tracking Sequence From …
It is definitely going to take a few more viewings to fully grasp the inner workings of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's fantastic tracking shot from last night's ... «Uproxx, Feb 15»
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Tonight's 'It's Always Sunny' Has A Tracking Shot Inspired By 'True …
That changes after tonight's elegantly-titled episode, “Charlie Work,” which, according to Glenn Howerton, includes a scene inspired by the tracking shot from Nic ... «Uproxx, Feb 15»
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The tracking shot: film-making magic - or stylistic self-indulgence?
From Hitchcock's Rope to Alejandro González Iñárritu's new movie Birdman, directors have used the tracking shot to create the sense of a seamless one-shot ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
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Alejandro Iñárritu's Birdman Is One Long, Ambitiously Messy …
In fact, the camera seems to never cut away from Riggan—or at all—making the entire film appear as a 119-minute tracking shot. It's a terribly impressive trick by ... «DCist.com, Oct 14»
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9 Long Movie Tracking Shots
Through long takes and immersive tracking shots, films and TV shows like Goodfellas, Boogie Nights, and True Detective have given viewers the impression that ... «Vulture, Oct 14»
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'Birdman' Tracks A Comeback In (Seemingly) One Long Take
Birdman's opening shot has a meteor flaring across a twilit sky — a dying star ... That one-continuous-tracking shot conceit is designed to split the difference, ... «NPR, Oct 14»
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Ray Liotta Recalls What It Was Like To Film The Iconic 'Goodfellas …
Extensive tracking shots in entertainment are thought of as great labors, but Ray Liotta says the Copacabana scene from 1990's "Goodfellas" was achieved in ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»

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