Angles

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Low angle 

These increase height (useful for short actors like Tom Cruise or James McAvoy) and give a sense of speeded motion. Low angles help give a sense of confusion to a viewer, of powerlessness within the action of a scene. The background of a low angle shot will tend to be just sky or ceiling, the lack of detail about the setting adding to the disorientation of the viewer. The added height of the object may make it inspire fear and insecurity in the viewer, who is psychologically dominated by the figure on the screen.





High angle

Not so extreme as a bird's eye view. The camera is elevated above the action using a crane to give a general overview. High angles make the object photographed seem smaller, and less significant (or scary). The object or character often gets swallowed up by their setting - they become part of a wider picture.

reverse POV



A point of view shot (also known as POV shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera). It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction (see  shot reverse shot ). The technique of POV is one of the foundations of film editing.








Pov

Both of these shots are POV shots that help show someones perspective, sometimes making scenes more tense as unlike other shots you can't see any of their surroundings. These are often used to show that someone is being watched or spied on. Sometimes a POV shot is done over the shoulder who remains visible on the screen, when a shot is taken over the shoulder a pull focus is used to make a certain subject seem more dramatic.

Eye Level

A fairly neutral shot; the camera is positioned as though it is a human actually observing a scene, so that eg actors' heads are on a level with the focus. The camera will be placed approximately five to six feet from the ground.





Birds eye view shot 

This shows a scene from directly overhead, a very unnatural and strange angle. Familiar objects viewed from this angle might seem totally unrecognisable at first (umbrellas in a crowd, dancers' legs). This shot does, however, put the audience in a godlike position, looking down on the action. People can be made to look insignificant, ant-like, part of a wider scheme of things. Hitchcock (and his admirers, like Brian de Palma) is fond of this style of shot.



Off Centre

The Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is tilted off to one side so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame. In cinematography, the Dutch angle is one of many cinematic techniques often used to portray psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed. Many Dutch angles are static shots, but in a moving Dutch angle shot the camera can pivot, pan or track along the established diagonal axis for the shot. A Dutch angle differs from a high-angle shot and low-angle shot in that those refer to placement of the camera in height relative to the subject, which for human subjects is mostly defined by a person's eye-line. A special type of Dutch angle is the Bavarian angle, where the angle is changed by 90° from the common angle where horizontal lines become vertical.

Worms eye view

In cinematography a worm's-eye view is also useful in movie making. It is useful because it can be used as one of the camera shots/views. It is used in filming to look up to something to make an object look tall, strong and mighty.








Upside down 

This angle is used to give the viewer a disorientated feeling towards the scene also the point of view shot is used to make the viewer feel like they are there with the joker.







Centre

the centre angle is a fairly neutral angle to give the viewer a balanced shot and you can add on extra effects such as zoom effects ect. But they are mainly used in conversation shots as they are more static.









Side ways Shot

The shot is another used to disorientate the audience makes the scene more chaotic and distressed and in peril e.g. in gravity the use of side angle and upside down angle adds to the free flowing effect to the shot.