Dolly Zoom Practice

Lesson on 12th Feb 2015. The Dolly Zoom
At the beginning of the lesson we began storyboarding and deciding our favourite shots in our storyboard that we would eventually use in our real opening sequence.
One shot we wanted to use was a dolly zoom at a moment of realisation for our protagonist in the real thing. We hadn't actually had any practise of a dolly zoom so we decided to practise this technique, which involves zooming the focus of the camera out as the camera is being rolled forward and vice versa. We wanted to see if this technique would be possible and achievable to use in our real opening sequence. 
We all took turns using the camera to zoom with as we got pulled on a wheely chair by another person in our group. Our results were very successful in the end! We have put together a short videoclip to show the results of todays work.
The Dolly Zoom was introduced in a Jaws movie and since has been used a numerous movies to convey a moment of empathy and excitement of the protagonist. In my view, I think a dolly zoom is effective to show a character just before a moment of action that they are seen in. This will hopefully be the case in our opening sequence as the protagonist is seen through a dolly zoom as a moment of realisation just after she looks at the date on her phone.