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Camera shots

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- [Instructor] So let's say you want to do a pan scene where you're tracking the camera across the screen or you want to follow an action. You want the background to move behind the characters. You want to have a panned background so it's got to be longer, much wider, usually far wider than you think, and in the old traditional days, the poor background artists and layout artists did have to draw these with the, working with very long tables with sheets of paper that could be like five, six, seven feet long. So in this case, thankfully we're working on Photoshop and we don't need to do that quite this way. So, in this case here's the crop of a... I think it's an HGTV 16 to nine aspect ratio and there's different ways that we can think of a pan scene. So we can actually just pan the background, keep the characters in place so these guys are running and running and we can just pan the background. Presto, pan scene. And you can see, I've already made it even longer than here so we can…

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