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THE FILMIC COMPONENTS 125
angle. Then, in turning— panning the room, as it were— they may see a rip in the rug from a high angle; and then, because a buzzing sound attracts the ear, the eyes may turn up to the ceiling to watch a fly, in a low angle; and finally, because of the odor of flowers attracting the nose, the eyes may continue to turn, for a side-angle look outside the window, and see a bush of blooming roses.
It is just such variety of angles that the screen-play writer must write into his camera directions. But instead of being literal in his presentation, he must be artistically selective, so as to present the angles as dramatically as possible, with a judicious interlarding of cutaways and cut-ins.
Reverse-angle shots. In re-establishing from a close shot or a closeup it is often more feasible to do so with what is known as a "reverseangle shot." This requires that the camera be turned 180 degrees and faced in an opposite direction from its original position.
Reverse-angle revelations. Reverse-angle shots can also be revelation shots— that is, they can be used to reveal a startling fact suddenly with dramatic shock.
In the picture The Show Off, when the hero refers to his notebook while he taunts his girl with the supposed fact that he is overloaded with dates, a reverse-angle close-up on the notebook reveals an empty page.
In the documentary picture Passport to Nowhere, after showing a camp full of war-ravaged DP's, a shot of two boys is introduced, showing them happily playing a game of billiards. This relief from horror, however, is short-lived when the succeeding shot, a reverse angle, reveals that each boy is moving about on only one leg because the other has been amputated.
Dialogue reverse angles. The most commonly used reverse angle shot is the series of intermittent close-ups made of two people conducting a dialogue. Here, a close shot or close-up (depending on the importance of the lines of dialogue) is shot of one person over the right shoulder of the other. This shot is then followed by a close-up or close shot (usually one to match the previous shot) of the other person, shooting over the left shoulder of the first person. These pairs are then continued, being intercut with close two-shots,