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A tracking shot is simply a moving camera, so called because in the older days to make such a shot they needed to lay down tracks for the camera rig to follow.
An '''Epic Tracking Shot''' takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. This is where the camera goes on an uninterrupted journey from a close-up to a distance shot or vice versa. The purpose of this complicated shot is so that you can see the sheer scope of their environment or that it helps reveal the location of different groups or characters in relation to each other.
What usually makes this so "epic" is that the complexity of the shot is such that it would be impossible to do without the use of some sort of visual effect, such as going from a city skyline into an apartment, and then through a keyhole into the bathroom. This doesn't mean that there has to be loads of [[Conspicuous CG]], it's just that it would be quite difficult and very expensive to do certain shots like that any other way.
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