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Film, like many other visual art, is a two dimensional medium

that attempts to trick the viewer into perceiving three dimensional space,

deciding on the camera's position.

Distance to the subject lenses and aperture will have a significant

effect on how the viewer perceive the character's behavior.

Moving a character away from the center of the frame

could signify isolation, sadness, or having a hard time

tilting the camera to the right or left.

Causes the objects in the shot to appear unbalanced

or create an impression of chaos or fear.

This technique is called canted framing,

and it is often found in music videos and action sequences.

Generally speaking, a subject shot either places the camera where a character

would be watching from, or it places the viewer inside the action.

A low angle shot from a runner would be considered subjective

because it gives the viewer the sense of participating inside the scene

rather than watching it from an external or more objective angle.

Subjective shots

are great resources

to tell a story through the character's emotions or perspective,

but should be used

sparingly as they can be disorienting or alienating to the audience, especially

if a character looks at or speaks directly to the camera

like I'm doing right now.

The opposite approach would be an objective shot

where the viewer has a perspective different from the characters,

or we see things that the characters can't.

Going back to the Runner example, an objective shot would be a low

angle view on the road of the runner approaching

the camera.

In the next movie,

we will discuss one of the most popular camera angles Point of View, or P.O.V.,

which falls right between the objective and subjective categories.