I'm trying to remember a word from when I studied for my degree in English Lit and Lang. It describes a viewpoint as if looking down from above and moving in and down, like when watching a film and the camera pans in from above and down, describing what you see.
I think it's maybe like transcendental but that feels incorrect; any ideas?
Pedestal
Also known as a Boom up/down, our final shot is the pedestal. This involves moving the camera up or down relative to a subject. […] A pedestal shot can be used to frame a tall or high subject (such as a building) while keeping the framing at eye level.
SOURCE: Seenit 7 Basic Camera Movements (And Why They Matter!)
In literature, this sounds like an omniscient point of view (sees all/“zoomed out”), shifting to a regular third person point of view (“zoomed in”):
Third-person limited
There’s a clue in the name of this point of view: limited. In third-person limited, you stick to one character’s perspective and are “zoomed in” on them. . . .Third-person omniscient
In third-person omniscient, we still use third person (he did this, she did that, they did this). However, omniscient is “zoomed out”. The narrative doesn’t come from the point of view of any one character. It comes from the point of view of an external, godlike narrator, who knows everything about the story and its characters.Source: Point of view: What’s the difference between third-person limited and omniscient?
