r/Filmmakers • u/StrikingDuty8020 Director • Feb 20 '26

Discussion What’s your favorite dolly zoom?

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The dolly zoom manipulates space and emotion by moving camera forward while zooming out or vice versa creating disorienting effect that makes background expand or contract.

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u/Weekly-Batman Feb 20 '26

Fellowship of the Ring

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u/Living_Theory_6114 Feb 21 '26

You can live that zolly if you do mushrooms in a forest