Favorite camera angle?

I was originally trying to find a recent thread about a specific episode, but since the only one this year was an avatar contest, I decided to make this about any TOS episode.

My favorite angle in "Mirror, Mirror":



This is when Kirk is "threatening" the Mirror Halkans. There are several different angles during the scene, but for some reason this particular camera angle is only cut into the scene once.

Are there any episodes where one specific shot is a favorite for you?

 

I've always liked the heroic low-angle shots of Scotty in A Taste of Armageddon: "No, sir. I won't lower the screens!"

Also the complicated tracking shot around Spock when he's sobbing mathematically in The Naked Time...

 

I loved all the different camera angles. Its one of the features of TOS. At least for me.
I agree with all that are mentioned.

My most memorable are those in "Is There in Truth No Beauty" particularly where mad Spock sees everyone through fish-eye.

 

Don't they use that same trick with when Chekov goes mad in The Tholian Web?

 

The director -- Ralph Senensky -- used the fish eye in both episodes (he was fired from "The Tholian Web," but not before finishing that scene, as I recall).

 

No particular scenes are springing to mind, but Harvey Hart's direction of Mudd's Women featured a whole bunch of interesting and creative shots, very unlike the rest of the series as a whole. Try it, and see!

 

I really like this shot from The Doomsday Machine. I think it's the only time in TOS when see Spock from this far behind his scanner.

This shot from The Immunity Syndrome, which I also like, is also from behind the scanner, but it's not the same.

 

I've always loved that shot from Doomsday Machine. That modular bridge set really was amazing.

 

My favorite camera angle of this episode was the "jackass Walsh" scene with Kirk, Spock and Scotty on the bridge.

 

Augh. They could have moved in just a hair and not made it so obvious the upper part of the stations are missing.

 

Somewhere I have a photo that I snapped of that very scene from my grandmother's color set, from around 1982. As I recall, f8 at 1/30th of a second would give you a pretty good "screengrab" from a color TV screen.

 

The most obvious shot of this type is the one from Errand of Mercy, with the wood floor support and the side of Spock's station visible.

 

"Mudd's Women" has a lot of classically composed deep-focus shots reminiscent of the work of Orson Welles.





Unfortunately, this was series television, not Citizen Kane. From Memory Alpha:

 

I like seeing the starboard side of the bridge for a change, as in "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"



Another nice view is the overhead shot looking straight down on the bridge in "The Galileo Seven" and re-used as stock footage in "The Lights of Zetar"

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x16hd/thegalileosevenhd003.jpg

 

Mount Shatmore!

 

"Spectre of the Gun" is full of imaginative angles too, but it's not currently in my collection. I'm going to try and get the complete series for either December or January.

I've always liked the bridge set. It looked pretty amazing watching it on television in the 1960s, and frequently inspired directors to try some creative shots.

 

If someone used photoshop to replace Farrell's 'Millard Fillmore' with Spock's 'Thomas Jefferson', it would be a true Mount Trekmore.

 

Not necessarily an angle, but this one: http://tos.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/2x06/doomsdaymachine_473.jpg , kirk lowering his face into the shadow after Spock says "He's gone"

Notice how almost all of these are from one of three directors -Pevney, Senensky, and especially Daniels...

 

Actually, Spectre of the Gun did give us a pretty good Mount Trekmore!

 

From This Side of Paradise, as Kirk snaps a switch on the transporter console, and exclaims "NO..."

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x24hd/thissideofparadisehd501.jpg

http://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x24hd/thissideofparadisehd502.jpg