A low-angle shot can help you break up the visual language, and suddenly redraw the mood and feeling of a scene. But when and how should you use this powerful tool to its maximum efficacy? The most challenging job as a filmmaker(and maybe the most important one) is to communicate thought and feeling to the audience while only using the camera. Sure, a great screenplay can carry a lot of the load, but your shot angles and camera movements need to bridge a connection too. So where does the dynamic and unique low angle shot come into play? Today we're going to tell you with some of the very finest examples. Let's get LOW. What's a low angle shot? Let's go over the low angle shot definition real quick. It's pretty obviously a shot in which the subject is captured by the cinematographer from below. It requires the camera to be positioned low on the vertical axis, below the eye line. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 3 June, 2019