What does it mean to shoot from the third angle?

Third-angle shooting is the most common and commonly used lens language. Most short videos, news films and feature films are basically shot from the third perspective. Watching the development of the story from an objective public perspective does not affect the audience's understanding and judgment of the story, leaving enough personal space for the audience to judge their own understanding of the event.

Most of the first-angle shooting needs to be followed or installed on the protagonist with the help of stable equipment, which is difficult to shoot and requires a lot of role scheduling and plane motion arrangement.

The third perspective is the most common and commonly used lens language. Most short videos, news films and feature films are basically shot from the third perspective. Watching the development of the story from an objective public perspective does not affect the audience's understanding and judgment of the story, leaving enough personal space for the audience to judge their own understanding of the event.

The third-person perspective (shot from the third perspective), also known as POV lens, is a kind of lens that expresses the subjective perspective of the characters and is generally used to attract the attention of the audience. Tracing back to the film Napoleon in 1927, director Abel Gance wrapped the camera and lens with a sponge pad in order to realize Napoleon's subjective lens, and then let the actors collide with it.

Three methods of photography

1. Look up and shoot.

Looking up shooting is to put the camera at a lower angle and form a certain elevation angle with the horizontal line. This shooting angle can well show the height of the scenery, such as shooting trees, mountains, buildings and other scenery. Because of the look-up shooting, the perspective has a perspective effect, which makes the subject form a perspective effect with a narrow top and a wide bottom. This kind of picture gives people a straight feeling.

In looking up shooting, if you choose a wide-angle lens to shoot, you can produce a more exaggerated visual perspective effect than ordinary lenses. If our lens is closer to the subject, this perspective effect will be more obvious and will bring exaggerated visual impact to the audience. In addition, the back shot can simplify the background very well, because the back shot is with the lens facing up and facing the sky, so it is easy to simplify the messy background of the subject and highlight the subject.

Shoot from above

Shooting from above is just the opposite of shooting from above. The camera shoots down from a higher place, forming a certain depression angle with the horizontal line. With the increase of our shooting height, the overlooking angle (overlooking range) is also increasing. With the increase of shooting height, the perspective of the scene is constantly enhanced. Finally, in theory, the scene will be compressed to zero, showing a plane effect.

Overlooking shooting has good visual tolerance, and the commanding shooting angle extends the line of sight space, so it is especially suitable for shooting broad scenes, such as shooting the whole city, squares and so on. The extreme of aerial photography is to form a 90-degree vertical angle with the subject. At this time, the three-dimensional subject becomes a plane pattern effect under vertical overhead photography. This vertical photography can be used to shoot flowers, ground scenery and other occasions.

eye-level shot

Head-up shooting is the angle closest to human visual habits, and it is also the most used shooting angle in our photography. Head-up shooting means that the camera lens and the subject are on the same horizontal line. Because of the visual habits closest to the human eye, the pictures taken will give people an immersive feeling. Head-up shooting can give people a calm and stable visual experience. It is not easy to deform when shooting people or buildings at the head-up angle, which is suitable for close-up and close-up shooting objects.

Head-up shooting is beneficial to highlight the foreground, but the subject, companion and background are easy to overlap, which is not conducive to the performance of spatial level. Therefore, in head-up shooting, it is necessary to control the depth of field and composition to avoid overlapping scenes.