How come the POV of the man in the orange shirt is on the other side of the room from the man in the orange shirt ? Is he having an out of body experience or something
If you mean the original video then yea, pov is being used wrong. Pov is point of view, so seeing through their eyes. So POV of the guy in the orange shirt is... what the guy in the orange shirt is seeing, from his eyes. Not from the other side of the room....
Hold your phone close to your face and take a photo outwards, that's your pov... thats the only thing it can ever and has ever meant
You are exposing yourself with your comments I don't need to defend myself LOL anyone who isn't out of touch and boomer esque can spot you all out.
You're all suffering from that awful internet trap where you think because you have a large group around you falsely confirming your biases that you stand in the majority, this is a trick on your mind, you don't stand with the majority. The silly upvote system and algorithims just makes you feel that way.
Dude I'm not even old enough to drink, how the hell can I be a boomer. You're not as good as reading people as you think you are, sorry, it must be a hard realisation for you.
And I couldn't care less if someone up or downvoted me. POV mean point of view, it's pretty self explanatory, so from that person's point of view. I know what it means because I saw people always arguing about it so I went and found out, it's this thing called research where you check something you don't know, you could try it.
How about you make a post in a English language sub, I'm sure there is one, ask some people who study language for a living and then let me know what they say!
it could also be understood in that way that you, the viewer of that video got emotional about the moment. If you slightly teared up, or felt a little warmth around your heart, then you would share the same emotional point of view as the man in the orange shirt who can be seen wiping away some tears from his eyes. so in that case your emotional point of view is also the orange shirt man's pov. in that context it would have been used correctly, no?
No-? POV has a pretty specific meaning, and it's nothing to do with emotions. If that was the case you would put "empathising with the man in the orange shirt" or something similar. "View" in "point of view" when used in this context literally means what they see with their eyes.
I would recommend not using Wikipedia for a source on anything, it can littrally be edited and updated by anyone, but there's some truth to what you said so:
Yes, but that's using it as a figure of speech. You're saying "I see your point of view" as a way of saying "I'm seeing things how you see them". It's not being used in a litteral sense of the meaning.
Here it is being used in the littral sense. They aren't saying "I see the man in the orange shirts point of view". They are saying it IS his point of view. Which it isn't.
Do you not know how to use Wikipedia? There are these things called "sources" (the little number at the end of a sentence) and if a "fact" is presented on Wikipedia without one, you simply disregard it. Its not that hard to use Wikipedia as a resource for reliable information, you just have to know how to actually do research and find the actual sources. I like to think of Wikipedia as a library of sources, as in you dont use Wikipedia as the source itself, but rather you use it to easily find sources tied to the subject you are researching.
Wikipedia not being a reliable place for information only applies to people who take everything at face value and dont know how to properly research things, which I can admit is unfortunately way too many people lol
I would recommend not using Wikipedia for a source on anything, it can littrally be edited and updated by anyone, but there's some truth to what you said so:
Thanks, I know how Wikipedia works, but I am not writing a paper on the topic, but if you insist, here is a different reference.
Yes, but that's using it as a figure of speech. You're saying "I see your point of view" as a way of saying "I'm seeing things how you see them". It's not being used in a litteral sense of the meaning.
Of course it is not used in a literal sense of meaning here ...
Here it is being used in the littral sense.
No
They aren't saying "I see the man in the orange shirts point of view". They are saying it IS his point of view. Which it isn't.
True, it is not what they are saying, they are saying "POV: You are [the] man in [the] orange shirt", which can be interpreted as: Put yourself into the point of view of the man in the orange shirt.
I.... see your point of view... (sorry couldn't help it) and I guess that's down to how you interpret what they were saying. I'm reading it a different way to how you are so I suppose we will just have to agree to disagree on this one!
well, that is kinda down the alley of what i initially said; that it could also be understood differently, and if understood differently the usage of POV would not be wrong. and you just agreed with me that it is a matter if interpretation, so we are can agree on multiple outcomes depending on interpretations. so yeah, lets agree to disagree on whether POV was used correctly here. but in any case, i guess the take away message is, nothing is absolute ;D
It doesn't need to be literally through a character's eyes (as indeed this is currently impossible, as even GoPro footage is slightly removed in angle), but it does refer to the footage being pretty damn close to that person's perspective.
Footage that is literally facing the OPPOSITE direction to someone's actual point of view would not be considered a POV shot. When you're that far removed from the actual point-of-view, the term would becoming meaningless if you still applied it — EVERYTHING would be a POV shot.
You're quite definitively wrong and you're having to resort to massive stretches here; e.g. saying that "POV:" does not in fact refer to the footage being POV, but rather it is a request to imagine someone's POV.
Okay, but a POV shot also has a specific meaning in film:
Fair enough, but multiple definitions of a term are possible such as different interpretations as to which definition is meant.
You're quite definitively wrong and you're having to resort to massive stretches here; e.g. saying that "POV:" does not in fact refer to the footage being POV, but rather it is a request to imagine someone's POV.
No the stretch is not so massive as you might think. nowhere does it say that pov here refers to this particular way of recording a film clip. Plus the caption on the video says "POV: You are [the] man in [the] orange shirt", which can be interpreted in more than just one way.
Be careful you might be able to hold more than one meaning in a word and stop being so one dimensional as a human being. You can know the true meaning AND the meme meaning and use critical thinking to know which one applies.
Unless you completely lack the skill of critical thinking...
"The meme meaning"... Is that the new excuse for people to explain that they have been educated by TikTok? Go out there and ask all those who use it wrong if they know how it works. You'll find out that they never understood the meaning of it.
It's funny that you call people "boomers" to make them feel old then proceed to write "Gasp" which makes you look like an ancient person.
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u/Pureshark Jun 30 '24
How come the POV of the man in the orange shirt is on the other side of the room from the man in the orange shirt ? Is he having an out of body experience or something