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Posted by Walt Flanagan's Dog at 63.64.156.55 on January 18, 2000 at 10:49:34:

A very general filmaking question for Kevin or anyone else who knows:

I've seen a camera "trick" in a bunch of movies where something dramatic happens and the camera seems to zoom IN on the background but remain at about the same place with the person in the foreground (sometimes the person in the foreground is zoomed out from while the background is zoomed in on.) I hope I am being clear enough, I've see this happen in a bunch of films and it looks pretty cool, One example is in "12 monkeys" when Bruce willis is in the 1990 jail cel wearing a clear plastic raincoat, he's doped up and out of it and that camera trick happens to convey that.

Thanks in advance.

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Pulling Zoom mercury 11:27:18 1/18/00 (1)
- Cool, thanks! Walt Flanagan's Dog 11:47:33 1/18/00 (0)
You mean the Michael Jackson 'Thriller' zoom.. RugMuncher 10:51:59 1/18/00 (2)
- Hitchcock did it first in Vertigo, I think *nt* HOTH ENERGIES 13:28:56 1/18/00 (1)
  - i saw hitchcock do it in psycho, i think *nt* monk 23:24:51 1/18/00 (0)

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: A very general filmaking question for Kevin or anyone else who knows: : I've seen a camera "trick" in a bunch of movies where something dramatic happens and the camera seems to zoom IN on the background but remain at about the same place with the person in the foreground (sometimes the person in the foreground is zoomed out from while the background is zoomed in on.) I hope I am being clear enough, I've see this happen in a bunch of films and it looks pretty cool, One example is in "12 monkeys" when Bruce willis is in the 1990 jail cel wearing a clear plastic raincoat, he's doped up and out of it and that camera trick happens to convey that. : Thanks in advance.

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