angle shot

noun

, Movies, Photography.

1. a picture taken with the camera pointed obliquely at the subject, sometimes causing distortion of perspective and proportion.

Word History and Origins

Origin of angle shot¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

We have the ones we took coming in; what we want is a wide-angle shot.

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Before it could fall, I had my Solar out and, with a wide-angle shot, burned the contract to ashes.

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The wide-angle shot dissipated the power, but it did include all of them.

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