History Main / JitterCam

Of course, jitter cam has also managed to gather a large HateDom from people who feel that it's overdone and used to cover up badly choreographed action scenes. Like many things, it isn't inherently a bad thing to use but when used in excess (either ''too'' shaky or in too many scenes) many people will describe it as "headache" or "nausea" inducing.

* Mocked in the opening video for the 2012 London Olympics, featuring Creator/DanielCraig's JamesBond. The Queen's corgis are shown running about... in the then newest ''Film/JamesBond'' style of shaky-cam.

* Mocked in the opening video for the 2012 London Olympics, featuring Creator/DanielCraig's JamesBond. The Queen's corgis are shown running about... in the newest JamesBond style of shaky-cam.

* Anime Director SatoshiKon likes to drop hints that he knows his camera (before his AuthorAvatar explicitly brags it in ''Paprika'',) and a few times in ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'', the ShakyCam effect is illustrated to enhance an impact. It's especially noticeable in the late season fight between Maniwa and Slugger.

Its popularity has increased recently, often overlapping with the style of the FauxDocumentary and {{Mockumentary}}. It can show up in non-live action works as well, see FalseCameraEffects.

* ''[[Series/JeopardyCBBC]]'' had this with the group's video diaries.

* ''TheThickOfIt'', especially in the first series.

* ''Film/TheHungerGames'' uses this throughout, primarily to prevent the violence from entering R-rated territory, and to heighten the emotional effect of certain scenes. There's also plenty of jitter cam used during the quiet talking scenes, to give the movie a "gritty" feel.

* ...and in the UK with ''TheBill''.

This technique imparts immediacy to the sequence, because it forces the viewer to pay closer attention to catch on to what is happening. It was originally a documentary technique, eventually becoming more common in TV episodes. Often an integral part, if not a nigh-mandatory side effect, of InUniverseCamera. Often used in conjunction with fast cutting (especially during fight scenes) as a method to convey energy, like saying "Things are so crazy the camera can't keep up!"

* ''BreakingBad''

* Some 75% of ''Film/LesMiserables''.

* DiaryOfTheDead occasionally suffers from this but mostly only in zombie attacks. One could assume that as the characters are film students they may have a sort of steady cam device, although you never see one.

'''Freddie:''' This isn't ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries Bourne Identity!]]'' You ain't MattDamon!,

* ''[[Film/TetsuoTheIronMan Tetsuo: The Bullet Man]]''

* ''LawAndOrder''.

* The ''MassEffect'' series simulates it, mostly for flybys and establishing shots in cutscenes, and ''especially'' prevalent whenever [[MindRape Shepard gets a memory of the Reapers.]]

* In ''ChildrenOfMen'', a combination of JitterCam and long sequences made for a very nervous movie, in which half of the screen time consists of TheOner with Parkinson's.
* ''{{Cloverfield}}'', a giant-monster-eats-New-York story shown as "documentary footage" filmed by a guy with a camcorder, is eighty-five solid minutes of this.

* ''TheBlairWitchProject'' arguably made this trope popular, if it didn't invent it.

* Used for effect in ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' in the third act: "My God, it's full of stars!"
* The [[Film/FridayNightLights 2004 film]] ''FridayNightLights''.

Combines frequent use of the WhipPan and the RepeatCut. The antonym of SteadiCam. Sometimes referred to as "Shaky Cam" but that was coined by SamRaimi in the use of the closely related trope ShakyPOVCam (using a POV shot of something moving, which would generally employ the use of the Jitter Cam).