Linking themes to the impact of angle, movement and shots

Brainstorm:

• High Angle - Makes the character ' other wybie ' look small, weak and vulnerable.
• POV - Other mother - Dominant and powerful.
• Medium Shot - Gives us some idea of the background but not full.
• Audience  feels - powerful, we are looking down on Wybie through other mothers POV. - Sad/worried for wybie 

- he looks small, sad, innocent.
- first character in other world to suggest something isn't right.

• Directors Purpose - makes us feel sorry for Wybie.

- Makes audience think that maybe the other mother isn't so nice - foreshadowing.

Dutch tilt - dolls point of view.
Paragraph:

In the shot with the other Wybie and the other mother, high  angle shots are used effectively to show the theme ' Looks can be deceiving'. This is demonstrated through a high angle shot from the point of view of the other mother. She is looking down the front porch steps at a scared other Wybie. This makes the audience feel sorry for Wybie and makes the Other Mother seem powerful. The purpose of this scene was to make the audience think that maybe the other mother isn't so nice after all. Combined with the use of lighting, Wybie is in a warm light but surrounded by darkness, the director has created atmosphere of caution- something is not right. This reminds the viewer of a later scene where Coraline is looking up at the other mother in horror as she throws her through a magical portal into a locked room. This shows that looks can be deceiving, because the other mother wasn't nice like Coraline first thought...

The camera angle is called a dutch tilt, is achieved by tilting the camera so the horizon is not level. Used Judiciously, it can provide an unusual or dramatic perspective. In the shot Coraline is sort of crouching down.