Talk:Over-the-shoulder shot
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The over-the-shoulder shot is a camera angle used in film and television, in which the camera is placed above and behind one of the participants. In this lithographic colour poster, which advertised a show in 1896, it is used to show the scene from the perspective of an audience member watching images projected by a Vitascope, an early type of film projector. Poster credit: Metropolitan Print Company; restored by Adam Cuerden
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Over the shoulder shot history
[edit]The historical background examples are so general that any artwork showing the back of a foreground figure qualifies as over the shoulder. There may be artwork the depicts an over the shoulder shout, but none of these does. None of these examples fit the definition that is provided, that a shoulder, and sometimes part of a head, appears in the shot. Does a shot that shows a person’s back and whole head qualify as "over the shoulder"? The application of the definition seems awfully loose. Wis2fan (talk) 03:23, 3 November 2021 (UTC)