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Week 7 Reading: The High Angle Shot

  • Writer: Skyly
    Skyly
  • Oct 15, 2018
  • 2 min read

Updated: Oct 21, 2018







I love this article Film Studies 101: The 30 Camera Shots Every Film Fan Needs To Know. It has extensive information about the cinematographer's art shots. It took more time to review every classic camera shouts which had built famous movies scenes. The actual sciences technology behind every angle shows us the effect meaning of the directors. These identified thirty of the essential camera shots help me distinguish the language of the camera.

I have a deep impression of the High Angle Shot. A shot was looking down on a character or subject often isolating them in the frame.

In the film Andy Dufresne throwing his hands up into the rain has finally escaped from the Shawshank prison, we saw the patience of the seeking and longing for the freedom.

The high angle shot also use at looking at Andy sitting in the car entered into the jail which means a difficult fate beginning.

I use the famous Red quote below:

I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. The truth is, I don't wanna know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you those voices soared, higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.

When the Red voiceover crossed the whole prison scene, the cinematographer's art shots using the high angle shot. The camera showed us so much meaning touched our heart.

The High Angle Shot like historical or God eyes let people have the critical thinking of life. Also, help The Shawshank Redemption (1994) became the Uncrowned king in every film fan’s heart.


Reference:

Film Studies 101: The 30 Camera Shots Every Film Fan Needs .... https://newtime-com.blogspot.com/2017/07/film-studies-101-30-camera-shots-every.html







 
 
 

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