The invention relates to a mining camera following shooting method and system for a fully mechanized coal mining face. The mining camera following shooting method includes: collecting actual motion information of a coal cutter; analyzing an image shot by the mining camera, thereby obtaining monitoring motion information of the coal cutter contained in the image; and analyzing deviation of the monitoring motion information from the actual motion information, and adjusting the shooting angle of the mining camera according to the deviation. Through the scheme of the invention, in an underground leftward and rightward movement production process of the coal cutter, the mining camera can automatically perform real-time following shooting on the coal cutter in the fully mechanized coal mining face, the problem of a shooting dead angle in a coal mining process of the coal cutter is eliminated, and system cost of coal cutter video monitoring is reduced.