LotR Challenge 18

[amruniel]

18 - Coolest Visual Effect

The amazing Dolly Zoom in the first movie:



A lovely nod of the head to Hitchcock and it works perfectly in this particulary scene at that particular time in the film.

Comments

[silvan-lady.livejournal.com]

You're going all technical! *grins* I do know what a dolly is, but I would never have known to refer to it in that particular scene.

[amruniel.livejournal.com]

*snickers* the dangers of spending too much time analysing films - too much technical terms floating around in this brain of mine ;)

I have to admit though, that I spent the last years referring to this type of zoom as a "frozen zoom" - I'm absolutely sure that I learned it like that years ago, and when I wanted to look up a definition of this effect a few days ago I couldn't find any reference to "frozen zooms" and had to figure out that the term I was looking for actually was "dolly zoom".

And I can't find my notes for the lecture where I first was introduced to this zoom... *grumbles* I'm absolutely sure the prof referred to it as frozen zoom and I want to find the prove :D