In the movie titled 'Inside Out', one character (the manager of dream film) says, 'pan away' to change the direction of the camera.
I googled the phrase 'pan away' but didn't get any useful result.
What does 'pan away' mean?
How can I use it in the colloquial conversations?
Best Answer
In panning the film or video camera stays at a fixed place and rotates on the vertical axis to reveal what is happening to the left or right of the original subject. Pan away typically means to pan so far to the left or right that the original subject is no longer visible.
The pan may be combined with vertical or horizontal movement of the camera itself.
In computer graphics the term pan is used somewhat differently, for scrolling an image wider than the display to the left or right, or for a point-of-view that moves to the left or right parallel to the picture plane while remaining pointed perpendicular to it.