Cinnovations: The Dutch Angle

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There are many tools in a filmmaker’s cinematic arsenal that help them manipulate the emotions of an audience. Most of them are deliberate ploys meant to pull at the emotions of an audience. Every filmmaker conducts their manipulation in tandem with an audience who knows they are being deceived, but it is the filmmaker’s responsibility to cause the audience to suspend their disbelief in the name of entertainment. There is one trick, however, that is more subtle, and its effect more subconscious, and nearly every filmmaker you love has used this technique to manipulate you. Feeling a little uneasy? That’s the result we’re looking for as we take a sideways look at the Dutch Angle Camera Tilt on this episode of Cinnovations!