Birds eye view shot

The birds eye view is a shot taken from above and is a very extreme and unatural angle. This makes familiar subjects look unrecognisable and could be sued to confuse the audience. It is used to establish where somone is and the action that is unfolding or even to show a character is lonely; have them alone in a birds eye shot. Birds eye view makes the characters in the shot look ant-like and therefore insignificant. The audience can not see what the people look like, what they're doing or how they feel which emphasises their insignificance and they appear only to be part of the bigger scheme of things. This is represented well in the image above.