Aworm's-eye view, also known as afrog's-eye view is a description of theview of a scene from below that aworm might have if it could see. It is the perspective inverse of abird's-eye view.[1]
It can give the impression that an object is tall and strong while the viewer is childlike or powerless.[2]
A worm's-eye view commonly usesthree-point perspective, with onevanishing point on top, one on the left, and one on the right.[3] The camera'spoint of view is angled looking up from just above the ground or low on the vertical axis of the shot's composition. With this single point perspective objects will loom and tower above the subject. Objects appear larger than they are. The psychological effect of this camera may encourage feelings of physical vulnerability and smallness.[4]
Examples of a frog's-eye view can be found in the experimental film "How the Frog's Eye Sees" (1984) by animatorSkip Battaglia, which includes a soundtrack byBrian Eno.[5] The first examples of a frog's-eye camera view are found in Russianavant-garde photography and filmmaking from the 1920sConstructivist period, the 1930sSocialist-Realist period andWorld War II.[6][7]
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