More on camera angles

Earlier in this blog I looked at some basic camera angles which were the: worm's eye view, low angle, eye-level, high angle and bird's eye view angles. In this post I will be looking at another important camera angle that should be taken into consideration when making your own film, and it is quite common. First of all lets refresh our understanding of what camera angles are. Camera angles are the way that the camera is angled when filming takes place, and the job of a camera angle is to give emotional information to the audience, and guide the viewing audience with their judgement about the character or object thats in the shot. Heres an example for you; if there is a low angled shot of the main character, what we can draw from this shot is that the main character is dominant and powerful. 

One of the key camera angles that I did not discuss in my earlier post was the angle known as the Dutch angle; otherwise known as the Dutch tilt, German angle or Oblique/Canted angle. To achieve this angle, the camera is not laid on a non-horizontal surface and therefore its on a sideways slant. This camera angle produces a sense that something is not right, because the camera shot is imbalanced and unstable, reflecting the situation on screen. This camera angle is often used in horror movies, in which scenes of uncertainty and pure horror need canted camera angles to further the scare factor. 

Above is an example of the Dutch angle. This looks like a
typical scene from a horror film.