Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
toma cenital
English translation:
overhead shot
Spanish term
Fast and accurate does it
Native in: Spanish 
, English
Works in: Spanish, English to Spanish, Spanish to English, and 1 more.
toma cenital
| 4 +1 | overhead shot |
Elvira Alves Barry
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| 5 +2 | bird's eye view/view from above |
liz askew
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| 5 +1 | high-angle shot |
Sandra Rodriguez
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Jun 9, 2008 07:31: Elvira Alves Barry Created KOG entry
Jun 9, 2008 07:32: Elvira Alves Barry changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/718789">Elvira Alves Barry's</a> old entry - "toma cenital"" to ""overhead shot""
Proposed translations
overhead shot
bird's eye view/view from above
Hola onstage, Una "imagen cenital" es una que se toma desde arriba (del cenit), ¿no? En inglés se dice "overhead shot/view". Espero que te sirva. ¡Saludos! ...
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Note added at 6 mins (2008-06-03 19:14:24 GMT)
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Bird's-eye view - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A bird's-eye view is a view of an object from above, as though the observer were a bird, often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps. ...
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Egmont
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Thank you!
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Sp-EnTranslator
: i'd be more inclined to say/use 'overhead shot' or 'view' in this particular context as you provide in your 1st ref.
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Nothing wrong with what I have put at all. Perfectly good English:-)
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De Novi
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Puerto Rico
high-angle shot
a shot in which the subject or scene is filmed from above and the camera points down on the action, often to make the subject(s) small, weak and vulnerable; contrast to low-angle shot.
http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms10.html
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Note added at 2 horas (2008-06-03 22:04:54 GMT)
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I just found that Marcelo González, a ProZ colleague from Mexico, explained these kinds of shots (Jul 29, 2005):
Overshot or overhead shot
The camera directly faces down in this shot. The effect can be to make objects or figures look small, or vulnerable. It can make moving things look mechanical.
High angle shot (H/A)
The camera is looking down on an object but not from directly above. This will usually make the person or objects look insignificant or vulnerable.
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/arts/being_eve/teaching/elements_e.p...
picado=high angle shot
muy picado=overhead shot
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/cinema_film_tv_...
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Carol Gullidge
: seems to be the official term
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Gracias Carol! Así es. He visto que en América Latina le llaman “picado” y “contra-picado” al opuesto.
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