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  • noun TV, cinematography A camera angle which is deliberately slanted to one side, sometimes used for dramatic effect to help portray unease, disorientation, frantic or desperate action, intoxication, madness, etc.

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  • (n): in filming, a composition with the camera viewing the scene at a diagonal. Also Dutch tilt.

    January 18, 2009