Hold the camera at your eye level or the subject's eye level - eye level view
Bird's Eye View
Get high and point your camera down as if you are looking down - bird's eye view or 'giant's view'
Worm's Eye View
Get low and point your camera upwards - worm's eye view or 'possum's view'
Snail's View
Hold the camera low to look along an object - 'snail's view'
Tilted Shot or View
Hold the camera at a tilted angle
More great websites & resources
Rachel Boyd has some amazing resources aimed at junior students that you can download to use in your classroom: Creating Shutterbugs - Digital Photography in the Classroom. Rachel uses the terms: snail's view, giant's view and possum's view (see above).
Daniel Chandler on his website 'The Grammar & Language of Film' gives a fantastic description of shot angles - definitely worth checking out.
Shot Angle Examples
What types of shot angle can you see in this movie?
Ideas and resources on this page are useful for tips on taking photographs and shooting movie footage. Shot angles is about change the 'view' of the camera. Angle of shot also can help create mood and emotion.
Eye-Level
Hold the camera at your eye level or the subject's eye level - eye level viewBird's Eye View
Get high and point your camera down as if you are looking down - bird's eye view or 'giant's view'Worm's Eye View
Get low and point your camera upwards - worm's eye view or 'possum's view'Snail's View
Hold the camera low to look along an object - 'snail's view'Tilted Shot or View
Hold the camera at a tilted angleMore great websites & resources
Rachel Boyd has some amazing resources aimed at junior students that you can download to use in your classroom: Creating Shutterbugs - Digital Photography in the Classroom. Rachel uses the terms: snail's view, giant's view and possum's view (see above).Daniel Chandler on his website 'The Grammar & Language of Film' gives a fantastic description of shot angles - definitely worth checking out.
Shot Angle Examples
What types of shot angle can you see in this movie?