camera angles, movements and shots can elicit different meanings when used in films (source)

camera angles

• manage expectations and giving info (how much or how little) about a character
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• bird's-eye view
  • overhead
  • either of character or to show setting; making audience feel like a god watching over the tiny people and subjects as if managing or running the entire place
• high angle
  • high but not as high as bird's-eye view
  • slanted to look down at subject
  • coming from up top
  • hovers over the sides of heads
  • makes the subject smaller and insignificant