Bird’s Eye View
In the two still frames seen here the camera is placed above the subject, looking down toward the subject and the ground. This kind of shot can seem disorienting because it is rarely the way audiences themselves see the world. Because of this, directors often use the bird’s-eye view when they want to make some kind of dramatic comment on a character or scene. In Gilles MacKinnon’s Regeneration (1997), an incredible bird’s-eye shot of a World War I battlefield is used to open the movie. The effect of this shot is to suggest the madness of war and the brutality it indicts on soldiers.
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