A2Push past / pass-by shot
enter a private space; make the audience feel they are sneaking in
A dolly in rolls the whole camera toward the subject on a track. What it's for: draw the audience into a character's head; build importance.
A1

Scene paragraph Night in a long hospital corridor, photoreal medical thriller, 35mm film look. A young Filipina nurse with her black hair in a bun, wearing a white nurse's uniform, stands behind a nurses' station at the far end of the corridor, in the middle of the frame looking toward the lens, holding a paper chart. Behind her the corridor runs straight back to a distant vanishing point, rows of doors and ceiling lights receding. A cream rotary phone sits on the counter in the near foreground at lower left. Cool fluorescent light.
Medium-wide shot at eye level, the camera on a dolly track pushing straight in at a steady pace from the first second. 0–2s: the camera starts rolling forward as she reads the chart. 2–4s: the rotary phone slides out past the lower-left edge of the frame and the corridor walls shift with real depth. 4–6s: she grows larger in frame as the counter edge passes below. 6–8s: the camera eases to a stop in a medium close-up as she lowers the chart and looks up toward the lens. Throughout: physical forward travel at a fixed focal length, one continuous take.
Say it travels. “The whole camera rolls forward at a fixed focal length” is what separates a dolly from a zoom: near objects slide past faster than far ones.
Pairs with: Resolve · Door opens
A2enter a private space; make the audience feel they are sneaking in
A3Newa hidden reveal; a "curtain" between beats
A4give a still moment life and depth; a beauty shot