MEDIA PRODUCTION BASICS - Video Camera Techniques: ZOOM
View of subject changes from tight to wide or wide to tight using the zoom control on the lens. The camera does not move. Pg. 7
PURPOSES: Change focus of attention from broad view to detail of subject or vice versa, keep size of moving subject the same in frame, reveal surroundings of subject (zoom out). Provides sense of magnifying subject without getting physically closer (zoom in).
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