What distinguishes point of view editing is that the object is shown from the character’s optical vantage point – . directly through the character’s eyes. (So if the character is drunk, for example, this might mean that the shot is deliberately out of focus with the camera moving from side to side – a rolling shot. Some of the most famous examples of the Point of View shot (POV) are to be found in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. (Martin Scorsese discusses Hitchcock’s use of POV shots in part one of the documentary series, the American Cinema. This technique is.
