Bird's-eye view
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Subject Field: Cinematography, Photography

It is a variation of the highangle shot. This shot is from directly above and tends to have a godlike, omniscient point of view. Mamer			Sinonimi Bird's-eye shot - Hyperonyms - High-angle shot Bibliography Index Home Conceptual tree
Context: A bird's-eye view is taken from directly above the subject. Fig. 2-112 is a bird's-eye shot from Vertigo. The point of view is Scottie's as he hangs from a rain gutter and watches the policeman who has tried to save him fall to his death. The same action, viewed from below or from the side, would not have been the same: this angle emphasizes verticality, the length of the fall, and it also shows how all of this feels to Scottie, who will be driven by this unhappy conjunction of acrophobia and guilt for the rest of the movie. Kawin Attestation: 2 Inquadratura a piombo Reliability: 3