History Main / TheKenBurnsEffect

* ''Series/ClassicAlbums'': The camera will zoom in on still pictures or details of the album covers.

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' does this with it's fight-scene artwork with faster and more dramatic camera effects than the typical occurrence of this trope.

* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEey5UNpvU video about a scoring technique]] for a homebrew clone of the video game ''VideoGame/{{Lumines}}'' uses pans and zooms over static images from 0:24 to 1:17 when telling the story behind the clone. An [[PopUpTrivia annotation on the video]] points this out: "interestingly enough, Creator/kenburns-style zoom effects like this make the titles in front *more* readable"

* ''Anime/DotHackSign'' uses the LimitedAnimation variant of this trope.
* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEey5UNpvU video about a scoring technique]] for a homebrew clone of the video game ''VideoGame/{{Lumines}}'' uses pans and zooms over static images from 0:24 to 1:17 when telling the story behind the clone. An [[PopUpTrivia annotation on the video]] points this out: "interestingly enough, Creator/kenburns-style zoom effects like this make the titles in front *more* readable"
** In fact, this effect is quite common on YouTube. If you are uploading an audio recording but lack an accompanying video (for example, a song without a music video), you need some kind of video to go along with an audio. Many YouTube videos use the Ken Burns Effect to pan and zoom still pictures while the audio plays. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Nq48sHF8M this video]] (of an old Linda Ronstadt tune) for an example.
* The season 3 episode of ''{{Series/Community}}'' titled [[Recap/CommunityS3E14PillowsAndBlankets "Pillows and Blankets"]] uses this camera technique to full effect - fittingly enough, since it's a parody of Creator/KenBurns documentaries (especially ''The Civil War'').
* Used in several episodes of ''{{Spaced}}'', with comics (instead of photographs) telling the story.

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' uses this to show panels from the reviewed comics.
* ''Film/NineEleven'', the accidental documentary made when two French filmmakers were on the scene for the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, uses this when showing a still photo of a chaplain's dead body being taken out of the WTC.

* ''Film/ForAllMankind'', a documentary about the Apollo missions to the Moon, uses this when showing photos of the Earth and Moon.
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[[TropeNamer The technique is named after]] documentary filmmaker KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. Ken Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

* This [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KEey5UNpvU video about a scoring technique]] for a homebrew clone of the video game ''VideoGame/{{Lumines}}'' uses pans and zooms over static images from 0:24 to 1:17 when telling the story behind the clone. An [[PopUpTrivia annotation on the video]] points this out: "interestingly enough, ken burns-style zoom effects like this make the titles in front *more* readable"

* The season 3 episode of ''{{Series/Community}}'' titled [[Recap/CommunityS3E14PillowsAndBlankets "Pillows and Blankets"]] uses this camera technique to full effect - fittingly enough, since it's a parody of Ken Burns documentaries (especially ''The Civil War'').

* The PBS documentary series ''Secrets of the Dead'' both pans and zooms when showing still photos and images, in classic Ken Burns style.

The technique is named after documentary filmmaker KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. In fact, this effect is so associated with Mr. Burns that some movie-editing software (like Apple's iMovie and Openshot for Linux) call it "the [[TropeNamer Ken Burns Effect]]". Ken Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

* ''VideoGame/WarThunder has this on the loading screens, but with the panning controlled by the user's mouse.

* ''The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination'', a collection of archival footage and news coverage from Nov. 22, 1963 (originally produced in 2009 for the National Geographic Channel), uses The Ken Burns Effect a lot, especially when playing radio bulletins over still photos.

* ''The Lost JFK Tapes: The Assassination'', a collection of archival footage, radio coverage, and television coverage from Nov. 22, 1963, uses The Ken Burns Effect a lot, especially when playing radio bulletins over still photos.

** In fact, this effect is quite common on YouTube. If you are uploading an audio recording but lack an accompanying video (for example, a song without a music video), you need some kind of video to go along with an audio. Many YouTube videos use the Ken Burns Effect to pan and zoom still pictures while the audio plays.

Examples:

The Ken Burns Pan is a camera technique that allows the filmmaker to retain some visual interest when all there is to work with is a static image. The camera focuses on part of the image, then slowly pans over it, optionally zooming slowly in or out as it does so. This can be used to slowly reveal details in the case of panning or zooming out, or focusing attention on specific details in the case of zooming in.

The technique is named after documentary filmmaker KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. In fact, this effect is so associated with Mr. Burns that some movie-editing software (like Apple's iMovie and Openshot for Linux) call it "the Ken Burns Effect". Ken Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

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TheKenBurnsEffect is a camera technique that allows the filmmaker to retain some visual interest when all there is to work with is a static image. The camera focuses on part of the image, then slowly pans over it, optionally zooming slowly in or out as it does so. This can be used to slowly reveal details in the case of panning or zooming out, or focusing attention on specific details in the case of zooming in.

If you want to get fancy, slide multiple cells across each other at different speeds to simulate MotionParallax and give the illusion of depth.

This technique is most frequently used in documentaries (where period photographs may be the only visuals, aside from TalkingHeads, the filmmaker has to work with) and in LimitedAnimation (where one fancy painting can fill in for a hundred or more cells of real animation). In one context, this effect wins awards; in the other, it draws cries of "LazyArtist!" Go figure.

The effect is named after documentary filmmaker KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries. In fact, this effect is so associated with Mr. Burns that some movie-editing software (like Apple's iMovie and Openshot for Linux) call it "the Ken Burns Effect". Ken Burns himself credits Jerome Liebling and the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary ''City of Gold'' as his inspirations for the technique.

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This technique is most frequently used in documentaries (where period photographs may be the only visuals (aside from TalkingHeads) the filmmaker has to work with) and in LimitedAnimation (where one fancy painting can fill in for a hundred or more cells of real animation). In one context, this effect wins awards; in the other, it draws cries of "LazyArtist!" Go figure.

The effect is named after KenBurns, who used it extensively in ''TheCivilWar'' and other documentaries.

This is effectively the same as the PanAndScan technique used to stretch animation budgets, with the notable difference that instead of cheapening the look of the work, it wins awards.