Point-of-view shot

Rarity: Common

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

5

In collections

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What Wikipedia says

A point-of-view shot, also known as a POV shot, first-person shot, or subjective camera, is a film technique where the camera is positioned to show what a certain character is seeing from their perspective.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Point-of-view shot”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: D. W. Griffith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.