How to choose the shooting angle?

The shooting angle is also called camera angle, picture angle and lens angle. The shooting angle refers to the direction relationship, height relationship and distance relationship formed between the camera and the shooting object. We call this relationship geometric angle. In addition, there are subjective angles, objective angles and subjective and objective angles, which are psychologically distinguished, so they are also called psychological angles. The shooting angle can be divided into front angle, side angle, front angle, back angle and back angle according to the direction relationship.

According to the height relationship, it can be divided into straight angle, slight inclination, slight inclination, large inclination and slight inclination, among which straight angle and slight inclination are commonly used angles. Oblique and oblique belong to two special angles. Choosing and determining the shooting angle is an important work that a cameraman must do at the shooting scene. Different angles directly affect the performance of the main body of the picture. (1) Angle determines the picture composition-angle changes, composition changes, and angle changes. (2) Angle directly affects the modeling effect of characters, and the change of angle affects the lighting effect and emotional color of the picture. Shooting the same object from different angles can get different modeling effects, thus producing different picture expressive force. (3) Angle is not only a powerful modeling element, but also a performance element of camera modeling.

Proper use of shooting angle can produce both positive and negative meanings. It is an important subject to study the modeling function and artistic expression of shooting angle. In the shooting scene of film and television works, directors, cameramen, artists and other creative workers always observe and ponder repeatedly, and carefully choose the right angle that can correctly express the drama content and scene scheduling. Regarding the importance of shooting angle, Bela Balazs, a Hungarian film theorist, wrote: "Orientation and angle are enough to change the nature of the pictures in the film: inspiring or charming, or indifferent or full of fantasy and romanticism. For directors and photographers, the treatment of angle and direction is as important as style for novelists, because this is the place where a creative artist directly reflects his personality. "