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old uh first thing you ever do which is a pan that's right that's right side to side turn yes
it's a left or left right right to left and and when you're talking to someone you might in you
know say a left or right or right to left pan and all you need is a tripod to do this although you
could do it with your body by just you know kind of moving the camera handheld or moving your body
more so yeah yep so this is slightly more common than the next shot we're going to talk about but
generally people see the world in a horizontal plane is this the shape of the horizon human
beings are vertically oriented but but the world that we live in is mostly horizontally oriented
we move from left to right when we go from place to place uh you know so those those types of moves
this is what we're looking at when someone gets our attention yeah we pretty much pan to look
at what people are doing yeah exactly exactly you generally will turn your head or turn your body to
focus your attention you don't as often move your head up and down um but sometimes that happens but
this is the easiest thing to do so it's camera on tripod turn head side to side yeah and it's it's
it can be follow action it can be response to action it could be a lot of things like that it
uh you know the the pan uh is um one more than uh you know static shot right so you're able to now
have uh a little bit of movement in your scene now you're not getting a whole lot of movement
differences so like because the camera's static and all you're doing is pivoting uh it's not
going to feel the same as other shots but it will um it's it's it's has more dynamics to it than a
static shot because that movement is going to draw your eye to whatever direction you're moving to
the action that you're either following or trying to get to so uh this thing these pans and really
i would say the same thing with any of these basic moves they can sometimes be uh cheesy um
because i don't know it's just like typically when people are shooting video they're new to
it they have their camera on their tripod and they generally don't think so much about moving their
camera other than grabbing the handle and twisting it around um and so you know the more you do this
the more you you start to you know if you need to go from a subject um in one location to another
you get in this mode of okay i'm gonna actually move the camera to the new spot to get the new
shot or whatever um so uh i don't know chris about you uh you know when i uh have been most actively
shooting video i've noticed that um that i tend to use the pan less and less over time
the the you know the more i pump my skills but how about you yeah you know the the thing about
a pan that changed for me is when i started shooting 24 frames a second and so because
of that the your pan has to be slower is to not get a bunch of shutter in your in your scene so
that was when i was when i first started shooting 24p when it started being available in cameras
to do so or in video cameras that is uh that was the first thing to be like oh oh i got to
do something different this is back in sd so but it was still you could tell that you know if you
did a fast you could do you get away with a whip pan uh you know just which is a fast pan yeah uh
uh but you know you doing something faster you either have to have a subject that the eyes
watching and the background doesn't matter as much but this is where that staccato shuttery feeling
gets if you move the camera fast but not so fast that it's a wet pan uh it's a gentle area but
you know i actually find myself doing uh pans but in really small ways now so trying to do a much
you know and i think this is in general shooting is all of the actions have gotten more subtle as
i've gotten more mature in my shooting i think because it tends to be those the shots that that
make the cut uh it of course always matters about subject matter and what you're actually trying to
tell a story but if i'm just looking for beauty and stuff the slower pan is like subtle enough but
adds a little bit of movement and it can be for me like i try to do a lot of slider shots and stuff
is oh i actually can get that done really fast without having to make this complicated so i
can do a shot that has a little bit of movement in it but i don't have to do any it's just i can get
it done it's bare bones i don't need any more equipment to get this done uh and you know you
sometimes you have to make those judgment calls if you're trying to get uh through the production at
a meaningful uh you know in a period of time that you don't have forever amount of time you go okay
i'm not gonna do a slider move on this i'm going to do a pan instead you know i think where the
pan works out the best as opposed to um you know a more fancy shot which we'll get to shortly is when
you can't when there's no parallax involved yeah so the parallax uh just to summarize this concept
is like when you're driving down the highway you look at the window and the things close to you
seem like they're moving fast fast quickly while the mountains in the background are moving slowly
same thing happens as you know you're seeing depth through motion when you're panning only the depth
doesn't exist yeah um and so that's really easy to tell i mean it's just a it's just kind of a cheesy
look if you've got this wide shot in a pan yeah as opposed to if you're kind of in close on a subject
where there's kind of one plane of depth and you can pan and you can't really tell as a viewer is
this a pan or is the camera actually sliding around and i think that's that speed thing
right is if i do this slower it's going to look or it's going to have the same feeling as something
that has higher production value because i'll be out of this shot before one would need would be
aware of the parallax right right right um okay we could talk 10 minutes about a pan i know maybe we
should change the podcast episode from camera movements to the pan to panning 101 yeah part
three yeah yeah we're gonna have a a whole series on panning yeah that's right panning for gold you