Definition  The different ways the movie camera sees the action taking place before it  Need not be consistent, unlike literature  Four points of view  Objective  Subjective  Indirect-subjective  Director’s interpretive

Objective point of view CCamera is the window and the audience is outside the window looking in EEmploys a static camera as much as possible SSuggests an emotional distance between camera and subject

Subjective point of view  Forces us to become the characters and experience their emotions  Maintained by a moving camera  Experience becomes more intense and more immediate

Indirect-subjective point of view  Does not provide a participant’s point of view, but it does bring us close to the action so that we feel intimately involved and our visual experience is intense

Director’s interpretive point of view  Photographing a scene from special angles or with special lenses, or in slow or fast motion, and so on  The director imposes on the image a certain tone, emotional attitude, or style