How to Use tracking shot in a Sentence

tracking shot

noun
  • The shot of Aimee in the bus is just a tracking shot down the center.
    — Christi Carras Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • That tracking shot in the carnival sequence lasts over two minutes and goes all over the place.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • But pulling off a tracking shot of that nature required a Herculean effort.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
  • As the frantic chase played out, Arkapaw captured the characters with a single tracking shot.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But there are also dolly and tracking shots and a series of static frames that shift the view from subjective to objective.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Sami knew the police-station tracking shot would test everyone’s patience.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The grips, working in religious silence, position the camera on a dolly for a tracking shot.
    — Pino Gagliardi, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Sep. 2023
  • That [tracking shot] wasn’t really scripted, with the exception of the dialogue.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • That spirit is best exemplified in the opening scene, a long tracking shot title sequence through a room full of snail memorabilia.
    — Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 28 Nov. 2024
  • There is salt shaker chaos instead of salt shaker order; the tracking shot in Season 3 isn’t of Deborah at all.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 13 June 2024
  • Rage eventually gives way to riots, but Tarr’s camera remains steady as a rock, whether in gliding tracking shots or unbroken close-ups.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Shooting that, Teo and I didn't know when the Uber was actually coming, and the way that last scene was shot was a single tracking shot.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The 1988 Beetlejuice opens with a deceptively charming tracking shot and a clever visual trick.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Slow, creeping zooms mimic her vision, and backward tracking shots continuously drag her into danger, her gun always drawn.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2024
  • The 124 words of this single, tracking shot of a sentence document the steps Russ is willing to take to avoid meeting his unmaker.
    — Wyatt Mason, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The film features these incredible lateral tracking shots, that really convey a passage of time in one direction.
    — Michelle Hyun Kim, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2023
  • One of the episode’s most impressive images, a long tracking shot depicting soldiers in the midst of battle, grew out of logistical necessity.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The camera glides through vast spaces with Cuarón’s trademark long tracking shots, lending ordinary rooms an almost surreal quality.
    — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Each of the four episodes of this Netflix limited series is shot entirely in a single tracking shot, in real-time, which makes for a unique viewing experience.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Past Lives exits on one of the most devastating one-two punches to ever grace a tragedy, in the form of dual tracking shots interrupted by a telling flashback snippet.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2023
  • Those fussy arrangements, symmetric compositions, and precise tracking shots that have become the stuff of viral videos and snarky social-media memes aren’t going away.
    — Wes Anderson Has Gone Mad, Vulture, 16 June 2023
  • Filmmaker Parker Finn’s essentially standalone entry takes off at warp speed with an athletic tracking shot of a bloodbath.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The lens then widens, the camera speeds away in one of the most glorious tracking shots in movie history, and Michel Legrand’s equally glorious rolling piano theme comes on the soundtrack.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That would be the single most efficient season from the mid-range since the NBA began tracking shot locations in 1996.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The filmmakers previously tried their hand at a tracking shot (one single, uninterrupted take) with their previous movie Game Night.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Not only is the script cleverly written, but the cinematography, including four epically long tracking shots, and the editing, which times all the jokes perfectly, are well-mastered.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
  • But Mendes passes off the reins after a pilot made visually notable only by a few ambitious backstage tracking shots, which none of the subsequent directors attempt to replicate.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Rogen and Goldberg directed all 10 episodes of The Studio, and the tracking shot is maybe the show’s most prominent visual signature.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Gavras and his cinematographer Matias Boucard have concocted an all-timer of a tracking shot to kick off this new Netflix thriller, tailor-made to grab audiences by the throat.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Cinematographer Juan Pablo Ramírez’s fluid tracking shots as Estela winds her way through the maze of corridors are mesmerizing.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024

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