History Main / DizzyCam

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' occasionally has the camera whirling around a character or some characters during pivotal moments or when they're doing some intense analysis. Thankfully rather rarely employed.
** One of the best examples is when Mac is noodling over the Greek mythology & numerology clues the killer left on the t-shirts he made for his victims in "Hung Out to Dry."

* The first two ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films. The camera spins around noticeably less in ''Dark of the Moon''.

** "Hung Out to Dry" has a nice example when Mac is noodling over the cryptic messages on the victims' t-shirts.

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* ''Film/{{The Hunger Games}}'' uses this liberally to obscure the fact that children as young as 12 are killing each other, in order to keep its PG-13 rating. They also use it when people are sitting down and talking, for some reason.

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* ''[[VisualNovel/KisetsuODakishimete Kisetsu o Dakishimete]]'', the second game of the ''{{VisualNovel/Yarudora}}'' series, uses this for dramatic effect at the beginning of the [[spoiler: confrontation]] sequence. The shot is also part of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgSLhrFIE_4#t=0m35s the game's opening demo]].

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* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' occasionally has the camera whirling around a character or some characters during pivotal moments or when they're doing some intense analysis. Thankfully rather rarely employed.

* Used for some scenes in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "X Cops", which was a {{Crossover}} of sorts with ''Series/{{Cops}}'' and took the concept of unseen monster from ''The Blair Witch Project''.
* Series/CsiNy occasionally has the camera whirling around a character or some characters during pivotal moments or when they're doing some intense analysis. Thankfully rather rarely employed.

Shooting a scene by moving around and around the action with a handheld camera, usually combined with JitterCam. Called DizzyCam because the spinning motion can impart dizziness to the viewer. This technique is used to express the world spinning out of control.

* ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''.
* Used to the point of causing motion-sickness in ''{{Cloverfield}}''.

* Used for some scenes in ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "X Cops", which was a {{Crossover}} of sorts with ''Series/{{Cops}}'' and took the concept of unseen monster from ''The Blair Witch Project''.