eli5 how are film scenes with camera moved while people are frozen

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How do they film scenes where there is 3d movement of the camera without people moving. Is this the same thing as second example where camera is moving in depth differently between things in foreground and background

Example:

Timestamp in video (but in general many parts of this music video) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJczUoc26U&list=RDP1tI4VFMRmE&t=65s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJczUoc26U&list=RDP1tI4VFMRmE&t=65s)

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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehd3zeMKX-E&t=68s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehd3zeMKX-E&t=68s)

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At the start of the first video (Stay – The Kid LAROI) when he’s leaning back upside down, he’s actually on a green screen platform. The platform is digitally edited out in the final video to make it looks like he’s staying still.

Scenes like the one in the second video (Shadmehr Aghili – Halam Avaz Mishe) with the couple can be accomplished through a photo editing process where you take a bigger photo, cut out individual aspects of it (like the couple on the bed) and then use video editing software to pan across the cut out sections at a different rate than than the background. The white dots in the foreground are edited in.

Here is an example of the second effect: [skip to 17:55 for the final effect, the whole video discusses how it’s made from a still photo.](https://youtu.be/GZimVBFSGm0?t=17m55s)

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