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Facecam
- 148 statements
- 27 feature instances
- 47 referencing feature instances
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| Facecam | label |
Facecam | |
| Facecam | page |
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| Facecam | comment |
Aka the Bodymount Cam or SnorriCam: The camera is mounted on the actor's body and aimed at the face, so as the actor moves, their face remains steady and in focus while the background bounces and moves. Similar to the Head Cam, but the footage is looking in the opposite direction. Its use is normally for when the subject is moving quickly but one wants to keep a strong emphasis on the actor's facial expressions. Since it gives a continued shot of their face while in a slightly surreal manner the world starts to slide and shift, it can be particularly effective when the subject is in a state of confusion, shock or disgust, as we get to keep a good look at their face at a point when they are erratically stumbling around and we get to experience the discomforting and unsettling movements of the world around them. Often used with a Dizzy Cam and P.O.V. Cam during a double twirl in two-person dance scenes to put us between the dancers, giving a greater sense of intimacy and excitement. Contrast Nostril Shot, when the shot is taken from a low position, therefore displaying the nose for added intimacy and creepiness. |
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Dropped link to Narm: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to NostrilShot: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
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Dropped link to Radiohead: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Dropped link to Seconds1966: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
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Dropped link to TheSmashingPumpkins: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Seconds (1966) | |
| Facecam | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Facecam / int_16b94356 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_16b94356 | comment |
The Autobiography of Jane Eyre: Jane sometimes shoots the entries for her vlog outside while walking, and she very often aims the camera at her face when she talks to her viewers. | |
| Facecam / int_16b94356 | featureApplicability |
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| The Autobiography of Jane Eyre (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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| Facecam / int_1b9ff2f3 | type |
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| Facecam / int_1b9ff2f3 | comment |
Used to good effect in π and Requiem for a Dream. It's considered a trademark of Darren Aronofsky's early work. | |
| Facecam / int_1b9ff2f3 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_1b9ff2f3 | featureConfidence |
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| π | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_1b9ff2f3 | |
| Facecam / int_203f09b9 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_203f09b9 | comment |
The Lovely Bones features Mr. Harvey chasing Lindsey Salmon inside his house. | |
| Facecam / int_203f09b9 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_203f09b9 | featureConfidence |
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| The Lovely Bones | hasFeature |
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| Facecam / int_28724fb2 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_28724fb2 | comment |
Titanic with Jack and Kate's dance. Mocked in MST3K's 1998 Academy of Robots Choice Award. | |
| Facecam / int_28724fb2 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_28724fb2 | featureConfidence |
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| Titanic (1997) | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_28724fb2 | |
| Facecam / int_320e79a2 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_320e79a2 | comment |
Being Erica used this in the season finale for season 1, when Erica finds out that Leo has died in the "alternate future" | |
| Facecam / int_320e79a2 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_320e79a2 | featureConfidence |
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| Being Erica | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_320e79a2 | |
| Facecam / int_35a060cc | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_35a060cc | comment |
Airplane!!. Elaine and Ted Striker during the dance scene in the bar. | |
| Facecam / int_35a060cc | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_35a060cc | featureConfidence |
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| Airplane! | hasFeature |
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| Facecam / int_3986593 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_3986593 | comment |
Canadian comedy-newsman Rick Mercer always uses these for his rants, and has lampshaded it several times. | |
| Facecam / int_3986593 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_3986593 | featureConfidence |
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| The Rick Mercer Report | hasFeature |
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| Facecam / int_3e5de40b | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_3e5de40b | comment |
Scrubs often uses this to show nervousness, but one standout example was for when the Janitor changed his uniform and everybody started to act pleased around him, to his displeasure. One shot has him walking into the hospital with "Come on, get happy" playing while we have a POV shot showing everybody smiling and greeting him, contrasted with a Body Mount Cam shot of his bewildered and upset face grimacing at them all. | |
| Facecam / int_3e5de40b | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_3e5de40b | featureConfidence |
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| Scrubs | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_3e5de40b | |
| Facecam / int_404622d6 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_404622d6 | comment |
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Bloo dancing with Baby Taco in "Squeakerboxx" | |
| Facecam / int_404622d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_404622d6 | featureConfidence |
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| Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | hasFeature |
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| Facecam / int_47c60552 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_47c60552 | comment |
Murder In Small Town X does it when offing a contestant to capture their reaction (and since a forward-facing cam would have given away the game). Ditto the UK version, The Murder Game. | |
| Facecam / int_47c60552 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_47c60552 | featureConfidence |
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| Murder In Small Town X | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_47c60552 | |
| Facecam / int_5b3356f8 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_5b3356f8 | comment |
In Turning Red, this is used when Mei is running down the hall after transforming at school for the first time. | |
| Facecam / int_5b3356f8 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_5b3356f8 | featureConfidence |
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| Turning Red | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_5b3356f8 | |
| Facecam / int_60f7c306 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_60f7c306 | comment |
Similar to the helmet-cam used on Fear Factor, during high-altitude stunts. | |
| Facecam / int_60f7c306 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_60f7c306 | featureConfidence |
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| Fear Factor | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_60f7c306 | |
| Facecam / int_6a3cdd1d | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_6a3cdd1d | comment |
Les Stroud frequently used an improvised face cam while making the Survivorman series. | |
| Facecam / int_6a3cdd1d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_6a3cdd1d | featureConfidence |
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| Survivorman | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_6a3cdd1d | |
| Facecam / int_6d261e91 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_6d261e91 | comment |
Dates at least as far back as 1928 and The Fall of the House of Usher, in which a Facecam goes with a shocked Roderick as he carries Madeline to her bed after she collapses and dies. | |
| Facecam / int_6d261e91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_6d261e91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, France) | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_6d261e91 | |
| Facecam / int_74fb542e | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_74fb542e | comment |
Used to great effect in the "Sir Digby Chicken Caesar" sequences of That Mitchell and Webb Look. The title character is a tramp who imagines himself as a Sherlock Holmes figure, and his internal monologue and chase scenes are presented from this viewpoint, as he hums his own theme music. | |
| Facecam / int_74fb542e | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_74fb542e | featureConfidence |
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| That Mitchell and Webb Look | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_74fb542e | |
| Facecam / int_7c038c18 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_7c038c18 | comment |
Phineas and Ferb: Dancing, Phineas and Ferb with Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz in "It's About Time". | |
| Facecam / int_7c038c18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_7c038c18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Phineas and Ferb | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_7c038c18 | |
| Facecam / int_9cf7191 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_9cf7191 | comment |
Mean Streets, where the lead character (played by Harvey Keitel) can be seen moving through a crowded bar and passing out drunk in the back. | |
| Facecam / int_9cf7191 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_9cf7191 | featureConfidence |
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| Mean Streets | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_9cf7191 | |
| Facecam / int_9e84c324 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_9e84c324 | comment |
Used to horrifying effect in Batman Returns, when Selina Kyle gets pushed out of a window by Max Shreck and falls to her death; she would be revived as Catwoman. It happens again after the Ice Princess falls off a building after she gets swarmed by bats (released by The Penguin). | |
| Facecam / int_9e84c324 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_9e84c324 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman Returns | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_9e84c324 | |
| Facecam / int_b855ac1d | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_b855ac1d | comment |
The Hangover as Stu is stumbling about in his hungover stupor. | |
| Facecam / int_b855ac1d | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_b855ac1d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hangover | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_b855ac1d | |
| Facecam / int_b9a0d78d | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_b9a0d78d | comment |
Frequently used when a character is wearing a space suit or similar, although typically that character will be seen in profile in such a shot to reveal the background through his or her helmet visor. For example, Alien. | |
| Facecam / int_b9a0d78d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_b9a0d78d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Alien | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_b9a0d78d | |
| Facecam / int_bfb88c90 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_bfb88c90 | comment |
Freaky Friday (2003): When Mom wakes up in her daughter's body. | |
| Facecam / int_bfb88c90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_bfb88c90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Freaky Friday (2003) | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_bfb88c90 | |
| Facecam / int_d78241e7 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_d78241e7 | comment |
Used in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels to express a character's devastation after losing a high-stakes card game. | |
| Facecam / int_d78241e7 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_d78241e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_d78241e7 | |
| Facecam / int_d808e1d3 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_d808e1d3 | comment |
Hold Me While I'm Naked is a very silly camp melodrama by George Kuchar. A shot that runs for a good 45 seconds, in a movie that is only 15 minutes long, featuring a tight closeup of Kuchar's face, as intensely dramatic music plays while he—uh, walks through the woods. | |
| Facecam / int_d808e1d3 | featureApplicability |
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| Facecam / int_d808e1d3 | featureConfidence |
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| Hold Me While I'm Naked | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_d808e1d3 | |
| Facecam / int_dcce62c2 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_dcce62c2 | comment |
Bad Santa as Billy Bob Thornton is about to pass out from his drunken stupor. | |
| Facecam / int_dcce62c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_dcce62c2 | featureConfidence |
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| Bad Santa | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_dcce62c2 | |
| Facecam / int_e56c9e55 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_e56c9e55 | comment |
In RocknRolla, Guy Ritchie uses it in a fantastic railway yard chase scene. | |
| Facecam / int_e56c9e55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_e56c9e55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| RocknRolla | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_e56c9e55 | |
| Facecam / int_e9c5591a | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_e9c5591a | comment |
Seen in Get Him to the Greek when Aaron gets stabbed in the chest with adrenaline. | |
| Facecam / int_e9c5591a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_e9c5591a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Get Him to the Greek | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_e9c5591a | |
| Facecam / int_fdd94128 | type |
Facecam | |
| Facecam / int_fdd94128 | comment |
Used extensively in Touching The Void when the protagonist is walking down a mountain on a broken leg. | |
| Facecam / int_fdd94128 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Facecam / int_fdd94128 | featureConfidence |
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| Touching The Void | hasFeature |
Facecam / int_fdd94128 |
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