While many directors spend a lot of time making sure that their camera is perfectly level, there’s no rule that says your horizon can’t slope drastically to one side or the other. The 1960’s vintage Batman TV show and 2000’s Battlefield Earth were both famous for having extremely canted horizons and bad acting. What can you tell about people from their shoes and socks? What’s under the sofa? How about putting a camera inside a dresser drawer as someone opens it and puts clothes away? Putting the camera somewhere other than eye level makes you look at the world in a new way. Consider videotaping what a child or pet might see or what goes on under the dinner table. This doesn’t just mean lying on the floor and photographing up people’s noses. Today’s modern video cameras don’t require anything so drastic to peer through a mouse hole. To get the camera in a new spot nobody had tried before, wunderkind Orson Welles famously chopped a hole in the floor to fit a camera and tripod at shoelace level.
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