dutching
n.— «One of them, to give the film “a comic-strip feel,” is a tilted-camera technique called “dutching.” “If you look at comic strips, almost every single frame is angled to create an effect,” Christian says. In “Battlefield Earth,” the challenge was: How do you make a film with some creatures more than 8 feet tall and humans and keep both in the frame? By tilting the camera.» —“What on Earth Are These Guys Doing?” by Bob Graham San Francisco Chronicle (California) Apr. 30, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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