Basic Directing: Moving the Camera

By default, your story will all take place in zone 1. If you want to move the camera to look at a different zone, you have to instruct it to do so in the script. There are two options for doing this: panning across zones, or cutting to a different zone.

Pans Syntax:

@pan to zone Z

*The camera will pan from the current zone

to the specified one at a constant rate.

Example:

@pan to zone 2

Cuts Syntax:

@cut to zone Z

*The camera will instantly move to the specified zone.

Example:

@cut to zone 3

            *IMPORTANT*

The default pan speed is 2 seconds. In our Advanced Directing Guide, you’ll learn how to change the timing of a pan to make it faster or slower.