to pan
- verb
- /pæn/
- Specialized
- During the documentary, the camera will pan across the wildlife in their natural habitat.
Going to go up, I hope there it goes up, pan back, zoom up.
- Going to go up, I hope there it goes up, pan back, zoom up.
- And then to finish off the shot, I will just slide left and pan out and up.
- And the camera pans and the three of them are in the corner.
- They didn't know that it was me because it was panning.
- You don't want to use directorial terms, you know, pan left and close up, extreme close up.
- The whole point of motion blur is panning the.
Examples
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We start on this image, then pan over to reveal the truck moving forward.
Fiction book (1993) -
Focus on the lens, pan up, focus behind.
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I almost want to like pan out so you can see how big it is.
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So now we can look at this side and slow pan over to this side and they look similar.
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So I used James looking out to pan the camera around.
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Just pan the camera around, all right?
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And then to finish off the shot, I will just slide left and pan out and up.
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Hey, pan down the row.
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We can zoom in and out and pan around like this.
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As the Chief reads, we pan the faces around the table.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
To look at a wider area to see the whole picture
Move the camera lens so the subject looks closer or farther
Idioms
- Informal
A person or thing that has a short time of success and then people forget them
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
An area in New York where many popular songwriters and music publishers worked in the early 1900s
A flat collar with rounded ends that meet at the front and appears on women's and children's clothing
- Specialized
A large ape like a chimpanzee that lives in forests of the Congo Basin, often called the bonobo
- Specialized
A large wild ape that lives in African forests and uses simple tools
- Specialized
A kind of chimpanzee that lives in east-central Africa and has long hair
- Specialized
A type of chimpanzee from central Africa with a black face
- Specialized
A western African chimpanzee with a pale face that is endangered
- Formal
An organization that helped countries in the Americas work together before the Organization of American States
- Archaic
A long metal pan with a handle and lid filled with hot coals to warm a bed before sleeping
How Wide
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pan (camera move) comes from the word panorama, with pan- meaning 'all'. A camera pans to show 'all' of a scene by moving across it, which is why panning follows action or shows a wide view.