How to Use tracking shot in a Sentence

tracking shot

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  • The shot of Aimee in the bus is just a tracking shot down the center.
    — Christi Carras Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Were there moments like that that occurred for this big tracking shot for the Deadpool Corps.?
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024
  • That tracking shot in the carnival sequence lasts over two minutes and goes all over the place.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Shooting that, Teo and I didn't know when the Uber was actually coming, and the way that last scene was shot was a single tracking shot.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2023
  • That would be the single most efficient season from the mid-range since the NBA began tracking shot locations in 1996.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2018
  • As the frantic chase played out, Arkapaw captured the characters with a single tracking shot.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The 124 words of this single, tracking shot of a sentence document the steps Russ is willing to take to avoid meeting his unmaker.
    — Wyatt Mason, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Of note: Spectre opened with a remarkable four-minute tracking shot in Mexico City.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2022
  • There is salt shaker chaos instead of salt shaker order; the tracking shot in Season 3 isn’t of Deborah at all.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 June 2024
  • The grips, working in religious silence, position the camera on a dolly for a tracking shot.
    — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The lens then widens, the camera speeds away in one of the most glorious tracking shots in movie history, and Michel Legrand’s equally glorious rolling piano theme comes on the soundtrack.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That [tracking shot] wasn’t really scripted, with the exception of the dialogue.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • This leads me into my favorite scene in the entire movie: the Deadpool Corps.' arrival that looked like a really chaotic sequence to channel into one tracking shot.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Past Lives exits on one of the most devastating one-two punches to ever grace a tragedy, in the form of dual tracking shots interrupted by a telling flashback snippet.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
  • The three-hour-plus telecast, which once again had no host, began in unusual fashion: with a long, over-the-shoulder tracking shot of first presenter Regina King strolling through the Beaux-Arts train station to a small stage, as if in a film.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Rage eventually gives way to riots, but Tarr’s camera remains steady as a rock, whether in gliding tracking shots or unbroken close-ups.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Sami knew the police-station tracking shot would test everyone’s patience.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Gavras and his cinematographer Matias Boucard have concocted an all-timer of a tracking shot to kick off this new Netflix thriller, tailor-made to grab audiences by the throat.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, Bad Things is smoothly competent and uninspired — or, more accurately, inspired by The Shining, from the hotel setting to the tracking shots along a narrow corridor and a set of ghostly twins.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 June 2023
  • The whirligig filming of a battle scene features a collection of Skid Row drunkards all, apparently, wielding real weapons; the segment ends with a tracking shot across the battle-wounded and the revelation that one guy’s dead.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Those fussy arrangements, symmetric compositions, and precise tracking shots that have become the stuff of viral videos and snarky social-media memes aren’t going away.
    — Wes Anderson Has Gone Mad, Vulture, 16 June 2023
  • 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.
    — New York Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Not only is the script cleverly written, but the cinematography, including four epically long tracking shots, and the editing, which times all the jokes perfectly, are well-mastered.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
  • The cinematography by Matt Clegg is crisp and saturated, utilizing a lot of complex tracking shots, and there are nods to ’70s-style filmmaking and retro touches like the yellow title font that drops about 18 minutes into the film.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Cinematographer Juan Pablo Ramírez’s fluid tracking shots as Estela winds her way through the maze of corridors are mesmerizing.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The film features these incredible lateral tracking shots, that really convey a passage of time in one direction.
    — Michelle Hyun Kim, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The filmmakers previously tried their hand at a tracking shot (one single, uninterrupted take) with their previous movie Game Night.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Nike made its reputation on canny deals with emerging superstars such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, but its most powerful ad may well be a slow, single-take tracking shot of an overweight preteen jogging down a rural road.
    — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Slow, creeping zooms mimic her vision, and backward tracking shots continuously drag her into danger, her gun always drawn.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
  • Yes, the camera moves, and Anderson crafts some ingenious maneuvers for it (as in horizontal tracking shots backstage to show Schubert’s temporary living quarters).
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023

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