BASIC CAMERA ANGLES OR ANGLED SHOTS

BASIC CAMERA ANGLES OR ANGLED SHOTS

Gif from Anna Geyer's presentation

Here is a diagram I'm a different text that is giving us the various camera angles(1) so first it's an overhead but it's very much so so we're looking down at the character (2) high angle also looks down a high angle if you think about a conversation between an adult and a child you would probably use the high angle from the adult (3) if your eyes are the eyes of the camera are the camera and you're the adult you're looking down at the child if you want to represent the child as important and not just a child you would use an eye level shot at that point the most frequently you shot between characters is eye level because the characters are equal to each other and we the audience are equal to the characters as well (4)  but then we have the low angle so low angle we know looks up at the character so it's all about the camera position in respect to the subject and if you're a child and the adult specialists threatening you know are you you're looking at adults show my child's point of view you're most likely looking up at the person.

The basic camera angles are: angles or shots

1)High angle shot - someone filmed on the ground
2)High angle - Extreme = Bird’s eye shot– overhead or aerial-view shot
2)Eye-level shot
3)Low angle shot – looking up at bike rider
4)Oblique or Dutch angle shot(Also known as Tilt, Canted).

 

Notes (All notes from Anna Geyer's presentation)

So the camera is your eye and not only does it matter when you're talking about lenses< but camera angles themselves so there's four basic types of camera angles 
 1)the high angle which the extreme of that is the bird's eye and some people separate Birds Eye out this is a separate kind of camera angle but it is a high angle but it's a very high 

2)eye level  

3)a low angle which chapter one talked about a lot and then  

4)the oblique angle or the spangled it frequently in critique we talk about oblique an production they off should use that angle this our text is kind of geared towards production you learn more about all the different characters editor etc and it uses such dutch angle first but it does talk about oblique tilting counted and one thing one reason that people tend to prefer oblique over Dutch is that Dutch is kind of a slur I mean if you think about Dutch ovens. Dutch angle is we will see in a minute what it is it... 

EXTREME HIGH ANGLE - BIRD'S EYE SHOT OR AERIAL-VIEW SHOT

BIRD'S EYE VIEW OR AERIAL-VIEW SHOT from The Birds

The Angles
Bird’s Eye Angle (Aerial)
1)Taken from overhead
2)”Eye of God” shot tends to imply omniscience
3)Employs a crane or a helicopter, drone.
4)Can cause the subject to appear weak, vulnerable, insignificant, or even indistinguishable or abstract.

 

OK so first size off to the aerial shot it's considered some people call it the Eye of God you often today you would probably use a drone because it's cheaper helicopter crane which is a dolly on a vehicle are often used and it can make someone look insignificant or vulnerable or often if you're doing I've seen a lot of opening shots and when we get to the House of sand well seeing some shots that are aerial shots looking at a landscape looking at the desert at that point it becomes kind of abstract geometry,  really beautiful shots.

About picture: 
Not a very good shot but there's actually birds in it because it's about film is about the birds attacking  this is from the bird point of view looking down at the burning city.

HIGH ANGLE COMBINED WITH FRAMING - Love me Tonight (1932)

In this moment in Love Me Tonight (1932), the normally confident Maurice has just been forced to admit that he is only an ordinary tailor, a confession that has cost him the love of his beloved princess. Director Rouben Mamoulian employs a high angle (combined with a framing that diminishes the character's size) to convey Maurice's shame and vulnerability. 

OK so here's a picture other high angle and this is taken from a crane or a staircase or looking down at the subject.

The Angles
High Angle
1)Places the camera looking down on the subject
2)Gives the audience a sense of power or places them in the point-of-view of a powerful character.
3)Causes the subject to appear vulnerable, weak, or powerless.
4)May even convey a character’s own low sense of self.

Notes:

OK so high angles similar to Birds Eye shots are placed above but just not quite as high and the audience if you're from that ICS perspective think about also someone standing on stage the person on stage is looking down at the audience members said they are more powerful just because there on the stage there there at least more important person he might say and if you use a high angle to represent the lead character often it means a character is feeling anxiety or has low self itself a difficult moment in their life.
 I mean think about high angle looking at someone lying on the ground the person standing definitely has the power and the person lying on the ground is having trouble

HIGH ANGLE:
Just think of it this way, and I explained it to someone recently.
Filmmaking is a world of opposites, so a high angle, you know
 – is not from where you think it is.
It’s from where the camera is – HIGH ABOVE YOU

Interesting article: High Angle Shot: Everything You Need to Know - NFI - Click Here

EYE-LEVEL

EYE LEVEL  SHOT - Maltese Falcon

The Angles
The Eye-Level Shot
1)Gives the audience the feeling of equality with or sympathy for the characters
2)Allows the audience to identify with characters, even those they typically would not.
3)Isn’t so much an angle, as just a straight on look at the subject.
Notes
Eye-Level shot like I said it creates and equality between the audience members and the characters you feel sympathy for the characters you feel like you're there the immediacy of the shot is amazing when it's it's eye level specially if the camera is moving too it allows the camera to identify with the characters and it's yeah exactly like this you don't really think of it as an angle because you're looking straight on so that's why it's called the eye level shot and thought that anything else.

LOW ANGLE

LOW ANGLE - Do the Right Thing (1989)
(The camera is what is low, looking up) 

A low-angle shot of Radio Raheem from Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989)  portrays him as threatening. The shot conveys the point of view of pizzeria owner who is intimidated by his boom-box-carrying customer. 

OK So what would you expect from a low angle? well hopefully from chapter one you know that a low angle looks up at the person and this is interesting because it's a low angle and it's also slightly oblique if we look at the lines that should be horizontal behind the character they’re not know, so the camera's a little bit tilted.

 

 

The Angles
The Low Angle
1)Positions the camera looking up at the subject
2)Places the audience in the point-of-view of a weak or submissive character
3)Causes the subject to appear powerful, in-control, dominant, or even frightening.
4)May convey a character’s high self esteem
5)Makes short leading men appear taller.

 Notes:

So low angle there's a camera angle that looks up it's often from a point of weakness or submissive character because someone's tower and go for you like the last shot it causes the subject to appear powerful or dominant or frightening that person can be a you know a very bombastic character with a lot of ego and 

low angles help if the lead man is short
For instance my mom used to watch Star Trek next generation forever and the captain Picard Patrick Stewart is a short guy and the guy who played out number one the first officer was taller so they did several things they they often used a low angled select slightly up at Picard but they also had the deck of the enterprise and captains chair was actually higher and if he's sitting at that chair and you know at the apex an and number one is standing lower down on the deck, it helps captain card look very authoritarian like the captain should.

OBLIQUE ANGLE

OBLIQUE ANGLE - The Bride of Frankenstein

The off-balance look of the Oblique-angle shot is perfectly suited to the unnatural activities perpetrated in The Bride of Frankenstein.

OK and so this from the Bride of Frankenstein and it’s an oblique angle and it's interesting to see her hair, you can tell it's oblique even though the background is out of focus right is thrown out of focus because her shoulders are at such a strange odd level and she's definitely looking up and something is going to happen next or probably see what she's looking at right.

The Angles
The Oblique Angle
1)The “Dutch Angle” tilt, or canted angles

2)The camera is not level with the horizon
3)May be used for a point-of view shot to suggest disorientation
4)Suggests impending violence
5)Captures a sense of psychological imbalance, tension, impending movement, transition or anxiety.
Notes

anyway so oblique angle or Dutch angle is slightly tilted he easiest way to create it is just have your tripod likes at different links right and then the background is purposely like the window sill that the horizontal lines and even the vertical lines aren't exactly horizontal and or vertical right and this is often used to create anxiety and so in in suspense suspenseful movies it creates tension and you may not even be psychologically recognizable like consciously recognizable I should say, but psychologically the imbalance you feel it, you know impending doom etc.

This shot wasn't mentioned in class:
The Ground level Angle

In the Ground level angle the camera will be at the ground level. This angle has been used a lot to show people that have fallen on the ground, like a protagonist who has had a hard fall. This angle can also be used an introductory shot for a presumably powerful person. This angle can also be used to show someone down on their luck.

This article lists 100 angles, shots and movements
 Some i've listed in different places. 
It's called the Ultimate Guide - It's too much information for me. 

Click Here

(It's really important for the death scene in Do the Right Thing)