Camera Angles

Cara Fung

Picture Name of Angle Description of Angle Use of Angle

- Filmed directly - Allows audience

overhead; feeling of all-
Bird’s Eye View powerful, all-
knowing Gods;
- Reduces subject to
position of extreme
vulnerability.

- Camera placed on a - Makes audience feel

crane; subtle sense of
- Reduce height of omnipotence;
objects - Subjects look
photographed; vulnerable;
- Usually includes - Reduce importance
High Angle ground or floor as of a subject;
background. - Useful for
suggesting
tediousness;
Conveying a
character’s self
contempt;
- Gives general
overview.
 - Approximately 5-6 - treat subjects as
feet for standing equals;
subjects; - Lets audience make
- Approximately 3-4 up own minds about
feet for sitting what is happening
Eye-Level Shot subjects. on screen.

- Environment - Useful for

minimized; suggesting
- Often, sky or verticality;
ceiling is the only - Increase a short
Low-Angle background; actor’s height;
- Figure looms - Heighten importance
threateningly over of subject;
audience; - Useful in
propaganda films
- Useful in depicting
heroism.
 - Subject appears to - Used to disorient
Contributes to the viewers;
viewer’s sense of - Makes viewers ill
identification with at ease;
the looking - Suggest character’s
subject; confused state;
Dutch Angle - Makes viewer feel - Often used for
they are scenes of violence.
participating in
the action

- Films subject from - Contributes to the

the approximate viewer’s sense of
position of a identification with
character or the looking
Point-Of-View Shot occasionally, an subject;
animal. - Makes viewer feel
they are
participating in
the action

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