cam

cam red

slang A type of marijuana from Cambodia. I got really high off that cam red we smoked last night. A: "You've never tried cam red before?" B: "Dude, I don't smoke a lot of weed." Think your guy can get us some cam red to smoke before the concert?

See also: cam, red

shaky cam

A cinematographic technique in which the camera is operated by hand, as opposed to being fixed on a mount, resulting in a jerky, unstable image. This is done to emulate a first-person perspective or imitate what an ordinary person might have captured on a handheld camcorder in order to create a sense of immersion or heighten the sense of excitement, terror, urgency, etc. I'm really sick of the trend in recent horror movies to have the whole thing filmed in shaky cam. It isn't scary, it's just nauseating! It just felt like the shaky cam was a cheap way for the filmmakers to give the documentary a sense of authenticity. The director uses shaky cam to give the audience a glimpse into the protagonist's point of view during especially emotional scenes.

See also: cam, shaky

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cam (red)

n. Cambodian red marijuana. He claims he scored some cam.

See also: cam, red

cam

verb

See cam red

shaky-cam

n. a camera, used mainly in advertisements and documentaries, that is shaken and moved constantly to create a sense of excitement, urgency, or crisis. We can’t afford much in the way of costumes for the sequence, so we will use the shaky-cam and shoot it in dim light.

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