How would you like to watch a movie where you had no clue what was going on? you probably would not appreciate it. Fortunately, the film industry has discovered many strategies to get across messages of what is going on in a film to the audience; they use what they call film language. They have developed different camera angles and shots that have different meanings within the context of specific films. In "Matilda", which is a movie about an extraordinary girl of wondrous intelligence with neglectful parents who are too ignorant to notice her, therefore she is forced to live with out the guidance of elders; there are a variety of angles and shots to portray how Matilda is intended to be viewed in the film.
Matilda's father always liked to think as himself as superior to Matilda. He would never give her the benefit of the doubt and he always thought she was just a dumb little girl. There was a scene in the movie where he kept repeating to her over and over "Your wrong I'm right, your small I'm big." While he was saying this, a
high angle shot (used to connote power) was being used. High angle shots are used to take power away from the subject, in this case the power was being taken away from Matilda.
Than there is the
medium shot which is used as and information shot. It usually shows the relationship between a subject to its surroundings and the cituation they are in. While Matilda's father is proving himself as being ineferior to her, the camera switches from a high angle shot to a medium shot; which informs us of the relationship between Matilda and her father. We can see Matilda's fathers hand in her face while her facial expression shows she is angry at him.
Throughout the movie Matilda was forced to grow up without the guidence of her parents. From when she was young she had intelligence out of the ordinary, which made growing up alone something that came fairly easy to her. All the shots of her doing things on her own were
low angle shots, which give power to the subject. Therefore, all these shots were saying that Matilda was powerful and independent.
Matilda's father always liked to think as himself as superior to Matilda. He would never give her the benefit of the doubt and he always thought she was just a dumb little girl. There was a scene in the movie where he kept repeating to her over and over "Your wrong I'm right, your small I'm big." While he was saying this, a high angle shot (used to connote power) was being used. High angle shots are used to take power away from the subject, in this case the power was being taken away from Matilda.
Than there is the medium shot which is used as and information shot. It usually shows the relationship between a subject to its surroundings and the cituation they are in. While Matilda's father is proving himself as being ineferior to her, the camera switches from a high angle shot to a medium shot; which informs us of the relationship between Matilda and her father. We can see Matilda's fathers hand in her face while her facial expression shows she is angry at him. 
Throughout the movie Matilda was forced to grow up without the guidence of her parents. From when she was young she had intelligence out of the ordinary, which made growing up alone something that came fairly easy to her. All the shots of her doing things on her own were low angle shots, which give power to the subject. Therefore, all these shots were saying that Matilda was powerful and independent.
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