High-angle shots can make their subject seem vulnerable or helpless. When Andy escapes prison in “The Shawshank Redemption,” for example, the high-angle shot is used to imply how exposed he ...

High angle shots. This is the opposite of a low-angle. Here the camera is above the object or actor being filmed and is pointed down at them. High angle shots make charcters and objects seem smaller.

Nothing says Billy No Mates like a good old high angle shot. Example: Andy Dufresne throwing his hands up into the rain having finally escaped from Shawshank prison in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).