Hand-held camera
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Hand-held camera is a film and video technique in which a camera is literally held in the camera-operator's hands--as opposed to being placed on a tripod. (Cameras may also be placed on operators' shoulders or in braces on their chests.) The result is an image that is perceptibly shakier than that of a tripod-mounted camera. The use of hand-held cameras has polarized moviegoing audiences. One camp says it gives the image an added intimacy and allows them to feel as if they're inside the film's action. Others, however, say it robs the image of clarity and can even lead to physical feelings of nausea.
Recent Films With Extensive Hand-Held Camera Use
- The Blair Witch Project
- The Bourne Supremacy (film)
- Die Hard with a Vengeance
- Inside Man
- The Island (2005 film)
- The New World
- Ocean's Twelve
- Open Water
- Syriana
- Thirteen (film)
- United 93 (film)
- War of the Worlds (2005 film)
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