Dolly Zoom and Time Dialation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48R6-iIYHs
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/dolly-zoom.html
So i’ve noticed this technique used in many many movies… i figured it had a name but i didn’t think to look it up until today… You dolly the camera away from the subject while zooming in at the same time. The object of focus (usually a person who you want to portray experiencing something of impact) stays centered and around the same size while the background appears to stretch behind them. It’s usually accompanied by a sweeping sound effect or creepy violin strings…
I thought of it this morning on the way in to work because i was thinking of the concept of time dialation and 2012. Is time speeding up? And if so, why don’t we notice it? It seems like old people are always talking about how life goes by so quickly but high school felt like fucking forever. Maybe think of it like the dolly zoom effect… Time is dollying away from us while our brains are zooming in to balance it all out in our minds. And just like the creepy background-stretching effect is evidence of this motion, so is the feeling of the days slipping through our fingers… even though the clock seems to tick away at the same measured rate.
When i was a kid it used to feel like my meals were SO far apart… far enough, at least, for me to get hungry in the in-between time. These days, the clock hits 9:30pm and i feel like i JUST had lunch.
Makes you wonder….
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The Dolly Zoom! Invented by Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo, sometimes referred to as a vertigo shot. I love those shots, hellza campy. You’re totally right about the meals, thats probly why when you get REAL old you just use an IV so you don’t forget da meelz! Plus, you already lived your whole life and are just remembering your consciousness at the rate of the reaction time of your synapses. Kinda how a fly is just swimming through the air. Plus I like shiny stuff!