Discussion Main / ScreenShake

While for sure The Star Trek Shake, as well as countless others, predated his use of camera shaking, there may need to be a sub-category called Rock and Roll with Irwin Allen, if only due to the sheer volume of scenes where humans were tossed back and forth left and right inside their craft/sub/cage. Some might say his passion for this effect was fully realized in The Poseidon Adventure, when the giant ocean liner is slowly, completely, and perhaps permanently flipped over.

If Star Trek preceded and outnumbered these scenes in Lost in Space, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, so be it: call it Rockin with Rodenberry!

Would the more subtle Jurassic Park-style impact tremor (shaking water glass, ripples in a puddle, etc) count as a Screen Shake?

I added a mention to the description that this can also be used as an effect without representing anything actually shaking in the fictional world. That can be interpreted as falling under the definition (and at least one example already was like that, the Baldurs Gate one), but the text didn't take it into account. I hope nobody thinks I'm changing the scope of the definition in a way that should have been discussed.