Media Term Thursday #18
/Point-of-View
positioning, subjective
In a film, the audience is positioned to view the narrative from the perspective of one or more of the characters. As events unfold, perspective may change several times. At any one time, we are seeing the story from one point of view. The audience is encouraged (positioned) to identify with that character at that time. We may not always approve of their actions or ideas, however, our value systems will almost always be reinforced by the outcome of the film.
Point of view is very dependent on the position of the camera, framing and focus. The camera can lead us to notice certain details in a scene.
If there is a narrator, the audience is told the story from the narrator’s point of view. Whether the narrator is a character or not, their narration may be very objective or just as easily very subjective.
