In film making, shot compositions, sizes, and angles enhance how you tell your story. So it's better if you understand it deeper, regardless of your specifications. Director who have thorough knowledge on photography had upper hand in the film industry. Because short film usually requires people to be multi-tasker. So let’s begin the course.
The first one is angle. In filmmaking, each cinematographer and director may has a slightly different definition of framing, but the definitions are similar enough to warrant the following list of traditional division, which is Low Angle, High Angle, Bird-eye View, and Worm-eye View.
Low angle. You shoot a low angle from below your subject's height — as low as the ground (or lower if you dig yourself a hole) then the camera points upwards from below. Low angles tend to make subjects look bigger, more powerful, more courageous and more important. As far as i can assume, this might be because low angle force the audience to position themselves lower than the actors in screen. This somewhat makes them feel smaller and less insignificant than the actors. Thus, the illusion of importance on the actors is created and the character will appears intimidating if you use a low-angle shot.
These shots are also good for filming people who are looking down at things.
High angle. Usually shot using a crane, standing on a hill, or looking out a window of a high-rise to get an angle looking down. When you shoot from a high angle, your subjects look smaller and therefore insignificant. Shooting from above usually make people or things look weaker and less powerful.
You can also use a high angle shot to give an overview of a scene as an establishing shot. Establishing shot is scenery shots used as transition between scenes.
Alternatively, you can put high and low angle shots together to show that one person (filmed from a low angle) is more powerful than another person (filmed from a high angle). You can be quite subtle about this, rather than using extreme low or high angles.
Bird-eye view, from directly above, can look cool. They give you another way to show how things in the scene relate to each other.
Worm-eye view, from below, are a bit more unusual but they can be useful if the scene above is interesting.
The first one is angle. In filmmaking, each cinematographer and director may has a slightly different definition of framing, but the definitions are similar enough to warrant the following list of traditional division, which is Low Angle, High Angle, Bird-eye View, and Worm-eye View.
Low angle. You shoot a low angle from below your subject's height — as low as the ground (or lower if you dig yourself a hole) then the camera points upwards from below. Low angles tend to make subjects look bigger, more powerful, more courageous and more important. As far as i can assume, this might be because low angle force the audience to position themselves lower than the actors in screen. This somewhat makes them feel smaller and less insignificant than the actors. Thus, the illusion of importance on the actors is created and the character will appears intimidating if you use a low-angle shot.
These shots are also good for filming people who are looking down at things.
High angle. Usually shot using a crane, standing on a hill, or looking out a window of a high-rise to get an angle looking down. When you shoot from a high angle, your subjects look smaller and therefore insignificant. Shooting from above usually make people or things look weaker and less powerful.
You can also use a high angle shot to give an overview of a scene as an establishing shot. Establishing shot is scenery shots used as transition between scenes.
Alternatively, you can put high and low angle shots together to show that one person (filmed from a low angle) is more powerful than another person (filmed from a high angle). You can be quite subtle about this, rather than using extreme low or high angles.
Bird-eye view, from directly above, can look cool. They give you another way to show how things in the scene relate to each other.
Worm-eye view, from below, are a bit more unusual but they can be useful if the scene above is interesting.
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