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How do storyboards mark camera moves (arrows, zoom lines, labels), and where do sources disagree on move names like truck, track and dolly?

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'Truck' is used for Z-axis motion by Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 24 docs, for lateral motion by the IIT Bombay D'source course (archived 2025-03-18), and for following action generally by Penn State Media Commons; no single usage is shared across these sources. Curator qualifications: SIGGRAPH 2006 schematic-storyboard conventions (S10) and Utah glossary (S3) not reinspected. Penn State page bytes changed since producer fetch; claim sentence re-observed in curator bytes 2d704830 but producer pin no longer reproduces. No authoritative cinematography glossary (e.g. ASC) consulted; terminology varies by region and era. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: Educational/vendor pages only. [rights_conflict_record] Eligible as terminology-conflict observation: recommend labelled arrows and explicit axis wording; cite curator bytes for Penn State. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/storyboards/paper/1138225555-8619df936c735f292ce3022c2328bf00-paper.pdf",
      "note": "Storyboard Pro 24 'About Camera Movements'; D'source archive id_ 2025-03-18, item 5; Penn State Media Commons 'Storyboarding' camera paragraph"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://mediacommons.psu.edu/2017/02/13/storyboarding/",
      "note": "Storyboard Pro 24 'About Camera Movements'; D'source archive id_ 2025-03-18, item 5; Penn State Media Commons 'Storyboarding' camera paragraph"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.utahfilmcenter.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Bootcamp-SampleS-V2.pdf",
      "note": "Storyboard Pro 24 'About Camera Movements'; D'source archive id_ 2025-03-18, item 5; Penn State Media Commons 'Storyboarding' camera paragraph"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250318212605id_/https://www.dsource.in/course/storyboard-and-animatic-animation/storyboard-animation/storyboard-conventions/camera",
      "note": "Storyboard Pro 24 'About Camera Movements'; D'source archive id_ 2025-03-18, item 5; Penn State Media Commons 'Storyboarding' camera paragraph"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://docs.toonboom.com/help/storyboard-pro-24/storyboard/camera/about-camera-move.html",
      "note": "Storyboard Pro 24 'About Camera Movements'; D'source archive id_ 2025-03-18, item 5; Penn State Media Commons 'Storyboarding' camera paragraph"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] 'Truck' is used for Z-axis motion by Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 24 docs, for lateral motion by the IIT Bombay D'source course (archived 2025-03-18), and for following action generally by Penn State Media Commons; no single usage is shared across these sources. · locator: Storyboard Pro 24 'About Camera Movements'; D'source archive id_ 2025-03-18, item 5; Penn State Media Commons 'Storyboarding' camera paragraph source

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documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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