Camera Language
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Camera angles can be used to convey meaning and impact. High angles show characters as less powerful while low angles portray characters as powerful or dominant. Canted angles create tension or unease. Bird's eye views are often used for establishing shots while worm's eye views make characters seem taller. Point of view shots adopt the perspective of a character.
Camera Language
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- 4. High angle A high angle shot shows the character from above the eye level of a person. IMPACT: The camera will be pointed face down towards the character to show their lack of importance, how powerless they are or vulnerable they are compared to other characters.
- 5. Low angle The low angle shots shows the character from below the eye level of a person looking up at the character IMPACT: To show how important, powerful and dominant they are.
- 6. Canted angle This camera angle is deliberately slanted to the side. IMPACT: This angle is used to show tension, disorientation and uneasiness. This technique is used to create a dramatic effect.
- 7. Birds eye view This angle is similar to what a bird could see during flight. IMPACT: This view is sometimes used as a establishing shot to show where the character is or is travelling to. To use this in a film footage, it is usually filmed from a helicopter.
- 8. Worms eye view This angle is the opposite of a birds eye view. A worms eye view is filmed from a similar perspective to a worm – sometimes straight up and sometimes straight ahead. Allowing footage to be filmed from very low down. IMPACT: This technique is usually used to make a character seem taller than they really are.
- 9. Worm’s Eye - This is another worm’s eye as seen from the ground but shot straight ahead rather than up. IMPACT: This angle shares an unexpected perspective – like entering another world.
- 10. Point of view-POV This angle is from the perspective of a persons point of view. This camera angle would be filmed from a particular persons eye level and shows the surroundings or actions fron their perspective.