Shaky camera

Shaky camera,^[1] shaky cam,^[2] jerky camera, queasy cam,^[3] run-and-gun^[4] or free camera^[4] is a cinematographic technique where stable-image techniques are purposely dispensed with shaking. It is a hand-held camera, or given the appearance of being hand-held, and in many cases shots are limited to what one photographer could have accomplished with one camera. Shaky cam is often employed to give a film sequence an ad hoc, electronic news-gathering, or documentary film feel. It suggests unprepared, unrehearsed filming of reality, and can provide a sense of dynamics, immersion, instability or nervousness.^[4] The technique can be used to give a pseudo-documentary or cinéma vérité appearance to a film.^[5]