History Main / ObjectTrackingShot

* Happens in the game ''{{Fable}} 2'' at the start where we follow a bird (I want to say, Sparrow?) as it travels across the landscape, into Old Bowerstone before landing and taking a shit. We then follow the shit as it travels towards the ground, complete with choir singing in the background, then it hits the main character.
** Happens again at the start of Fable III when we cut away from the heroic chicken getting shot. We focus on a single white feather drifting up to the main character's room window.

* The mind-blowing opening shot of ''{{Lord of War}}'' follows a bullet from its construction on a factory assembly line to its use on a child soldier in Africa, the entire sequence set to Buffalo Springfield's [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "For What It's Worth"]].

* [[DisneyDucksComicUniverse The Scrooge McDuck]] Story [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?s=date&loc=FPM99001 The Coin]] from Don Rosa is an entire Object Tracking Shot following a 25cent coin "traveling" around Duckburg.

* The season change transitions in the HarryPotter films are done with Hedwig, or some other bird, flying around Hogwarts.

* The [=FedEx=] package at the beginning of CastAway.
* In ''NightWatch'' we follow a bolt that has rattled loose from a plane experiencing heavy turbulence. It falls through the vortex, past the 100's of crows circling (hitting several) into a air vent on top of a building. It bounces down through the ducts before finally popped out one of the grates into the cup of coffee of a cursed woman. Of course this ruins her coffee and she had just used the last she had to make the cup...cursed indeed.
* The camera pans around the childrens' box of gifts from Boo Radley in the opening credits of ''ToKillaMockingbird''.

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* ''StarTrekGenerations'' had the ship-christening bottle.

The camera sweeps across the landscape and focuses on a single white feather. A breeze blows and it begins to flutter, dancing away. The camera follows almost as if it was entranced. The feather travels far; through rain and snow, over mountains and through caves, it may even pass through a machine, dodge the pistons and avoid being set alight. The feather has become the main character for the moment, filled with suspense, beauty and purpose. It lands, then it's promptly stepped on by the lead character and it's on to the main story.

* Navi at the very beginning of ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time''.

* The Sandvich from ''[[TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2's]]'' "Meet the Sandvich" video, although the camera lingers inside the fridge after it is removed and devoured off-screen.

* In the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E4LunaEclipsed Luna Eclipsed]]", when Luna as Nightmare Moon appears, the gust blows Applejack's hat off her head. The camera follows the hat as it travels toward the statue of Nightmare Moon.

** Including a couple of humorous ones in Prisoner of Azkaban, first with the bird that gets [[spoiler:smashed by the Whomping Willow]], and then with the camera following a single falling leave of the Whomping Willow before [[spoiler: the shot widens to show the tree unceremoniously shedding ''all'' of its leaves]].

* The Scrooge McDuck Story [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?s=date&loc=FPM99001 The Coin]] from Don Rosa is an entire Object Tracking Shot following a 25cent coin "traveling" around Duckburg.

* ''LegendoftheGuardiansTheOwlsofGahoole'' begins with Soren flying in and out the WarnerBros and VillageRoadshow logos.

* The (primitive CGI) insect at the beginning of ''MenInBlack'', which ends up splatted on the windscreen of a van.

* There's actually a ''RocketPower'' episode that follows Twister's lost hat until Twister finds it again.

* The dinosaur egg and Pterodactyl at the very beginning of ''{{Dinosaur}}''.
* An uncommon example from literature; every WheelOfTime book starts out with the narration following a gust of wind as it sweeps across the countries and places before settling on the first viewpoint character. The series' iconic opening passage mentions that "a wind rose" and that "the wind was not the beginning... but it was ''a'' beginning."

** ''TheSimpsons'' did a parody of the Forrest Gump feather where it stabs Homer in the eye, twice, before Homer stomps on it.

** Parodied in ''FamilyGuy'', where Peter Griffin follows a bag floating through the air in the Meg gets a Reality Show episode.

* Navi at the very beginning of ''TheLegendOfZelda: Ocarina of Time''.
* Shadow The Hedgehog does this with a flyer about the nearby comet.

* Tim Burton's ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' movie, following the making of a Wonka Bar.
* There's actually a ''RocketPower'' episode that follows Twister's lost hat until Twister finds it again.
* In Disney's ''{{Enchanted}}'', when Giselle drops the poison apple, the camera follows it as it rolls down the stairs and across the ballroom all the way to Robert's foot.
* The Sandvich from ''[[TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2's]]'' "Meet the Sandvich" video, although the camera lingers inside the fridge after it is removed and devoured off-screen.
** Then again, there WERE two slices of Sandvich in the fridge...
* Done with a cigarette in the first cutscene of Freelancer.

* Pretty much the complete content of a certain Twix advert where we're shown two bars being made as they travel until the mouth of a woman. All to the backing song of So happy Together.

* Happens in the game ''{{Fable}} 2'' at the start where we follow a bird (I want to say, Sparrow?) as it travels across the landscape, into Old Bowerstone before landing and taking a shit. We then follow the shit as it travels towards the ground, complete with choir singing in the background, then it hits the main character.
** Happens again at the start of Fable III when we cut away from the heroic chicken getting shot. We focus on a single white feather drifting up to the main character's room window.

* Done in DeadFantasy VI, as part of a homage to the opening scene of FinalFantasyVIII.
* The leaked script for the upcoming HBO fantasy drama ''Game of Thrones'' indicates that the opening credit sequence will depict an object tracking shot of a raven carrying messages between distant castles.

* Comics example: The Scrooge McDuck Story [[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?s=date&loc=FPM99001 The Coin]] from Don Rosa is an entire Object Tracking Shot following a 25cent coin "traveling" around Duckburg.
* The dinosaur egg and Pterodactyl at the very beginning of ''{{Dinosaur}}''.
* An uncommon example from literature; every WheelOfTime book starts out with the narration following a gust of wind as it sweeps across the countries and places before settling on the first viewpoint character. The series' iconic opening passage mentions that "a wind rose" and that "the wind was not the beginning... but it was ''a'' beginning."

* At the beginning of EdEddnEddy 's Halloween ep Boo Haw Haw, a leaf flutters through the air near Peach Creek Jr High and lands on Edd's head. [[NeatFreak He then adds it to a pile of properly sorted leaves.]]
* The camera pans around the childrens' box of gifts from Boo Radley in the opening credits of To Kill a Mockingbird.

* The ticket from ''The Polar Express''.

* The symbolic bookend in ''ForrestGump''.