zoom shot

zoom shot
  a single shot taken with a lens that has a variable focal length, thereby permitting the cinematographer to change the distance between the camera and the object being filmed, and rapidly move from a wide-angle shot to a telephoto shot in one continuous movement; this camera technique makes an object in the frame appear larger; movement towards a subject to magnify it is known as zoom in or forward zoom, or reversed to reduce its size is known as zoom out/back or backward zoom
  Example: Hitchcock's much-imitated and unsettling Hitchcock-zoom (or contra-zoom) in Vertigo (1958) using a combination zoom in and dolly back, resulting in a dramatic change in perspective; the camera tracked in one direction while zooming in the opposite direction, causing an apparent "lengthening" of distance down the stairway

Glossary of cinematic terms . 2015.

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