Film technique where the camera is shaken for effect
Photograph of a tree, sun, and grass while deliberately shaking the camera
Shaky camera,[1]shaky cam,[2]jerky camera, queasy cam,[3]run-and-gun[4] or free camera[4] is a cinematographic technique where stable-image techniques are purposely dispensed with shaking. It is a hand-held camera, or given the appearance of being hand-held, and in many cases shots are limited to what one photographer could have accomplished with one camera. Shaky cam is often employed to give a film sequence an ad hoc, electronic news-gathering, or documentary film feel. It suggests unprepared, unrehearsed filming of reality, and can provide a sense of dynamics, immersion, instability or nervousness.[4] The technique can be used to give a pseudo-documentary or cinéma vérité appearance to a film.[5]
Too much shaky camera motion can make some viewers feel distracted, dizzy or sick.[6][7]
^Mekas, Jonas. "A Note on the Shaky Camera." Film Culture, issues 24-27, 1962.
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