I've been studying a lot of angles used in movies for storyboarding my next project. One angle I cannot figure out are these ones, which are used in Blood Simple, for example. 5 minutes and 6 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOwDBifKN2c
A lot of other movies use this angle too. Mostly in cars, such as Halloween, Lars and the Real Girl... United 93 even did it on the plane, with the pilots, for a lot of their shots. Why not put the camera in front of them pointing straight on though? Or a dirty OTS shot from the side. Why shoot an actor's head, diagonally from behind, not getting much of the face as a result. A lot of times the director picks the angle of the shot, depending on the emotion he or she wants convey, but I am not getting any particular emotion from this odd angle.
So what is the emotion that I am missing, if that's the case?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOwDBifKN2c
A lot of other movies use this angle too. Mostly in cars, such as Halloween, Lars and the Real Girl... United 93 even did it on the plane, with the pilots, for a lot of their shots. Why not put the camera in front of them pointing straight on though? Or a dirty OTS shot from the side. Why shoot an actor's head, diagonally from behind, not getting much of the face as a result. A lot of times the director picks the angle of the shot, depending on the emotion he or she wants convey, but I am not getting any particular emotion from this odd angle.
So what is the emotion that I am missing, if that's the case?