Camera Angles

Question 1

1. What are the 6 types of camera angles?

Answer 1

1. Eye level, low angle, extreme low angle, high angle, extreme high angle, dutch angle.

Question 2

1. What height is an eye-level angle at?
   - What does this help the audience to do?
2. Where does the camera film from in a low-angle shot?
   - What about an extreme low-angle?
   - How do both of these make the character look?
3. Which shot is taken from above the subject?
   - How does this make them look?

Answer 2

1. Normal, natural height that is the character’s eye level.
   - Connect with the characters.
2. Below the subject.
   - Directly below the subject.
   - Strong, powerful, heroic or threatening.
3. High Angle.
   - Small, weak, powerless or trapped.

Question 3

1. What ‘view’ is an extreme high-angle shot from?
   - What does this convey?
2. What does a Dutch Angle do?
   - What does this convey?

Answer 3

1. Bird’s Eye View.
   - Something unnatural, weird or out of the norm.
2. Slants camera, looks at subject almost diagonally.
   - Something strange or even supernatural.