Multiple points of view

Multiple points of view

At the editing stage, the editor will switch between camera angles depending what the subject is doing. This effect of varying distances and angles, as opposed to sticking to one shot all the way through, brings shape, texture and depth to the scene. The editor uses action matches to preserve continuity, makes the cuts invisible and the audience gets a multi-faceted perspective on events which engages then in the action.

Multiple points of view is a technique where a number of different camera angles are employed to film a single event.

The difference between 'following the action' and 'multiple points of view' is that in the latter we are focused on a single piece of action and seeing that action from many different vantage points. 

The multiple points of view technique can:

• Enable the audience to see a bigger picture and help them understand full what is going on;
• add dynamism to the action making the scene more engaging;
• Manipulate time: observing the same action from multiple perspectives elongates time;
• Reveal key information from different perspectives.  

In my search for a video clip which conveys multiple points of view, i have found a clip from the movie World war Z. 

The video clip which is on YouTube, called World war Z lab scene.

There are demonstrated scenes of different points of view between 0.27 seconds and 0.31 seconds in the video clip. 

It shows the different points of view from where the zombie is seen chasing the antagonist ( Brad Pitt) and we see it from the perspective of the zombie and the perspective of Brad Pitt when he is trying to escape and run away from the protagonist which is the zombie. 

Another clip i found which is from the first scene of World war Z, called Philadelphia features various 'points of view' shown from one of the daughters perspective, the mothers and Brad Pitt when the family is  

being warned by the police officer.
In the clip, we see the multiple points of view between 0.21 seconds of the clip and 0.32 seconds, then again between 1.58 minutes and 2 minutes of the clip.