How to position my camera so its identical like the draw my life one?

I'm not doing a dml but i'm doing something identical for a project. But how do i make my camera view from the top like in the videos. I have a mac laptop and iphone. Do i need some kind holder or anything? What's the simplest way

DML (Draw My Life ) example:

where you setup camera, to video capture pages of flip book type drawings,
and narrate story to go with video clip, similar stop motion

due to memory and converting of large files, you may want to use laptop over phone,
Macbook has camera, but may require add on web cam to record drawings,
or if you have camera, check if it has video movie record option, if so, use that instead,

so you would want device above paper or on angle over head as birds eye view point,
record in steps, and edit and compile, add sound clips, save as mov / avi export,

other idea would to have paper on wall or drawing board easel, and then use laptop camera close to drawing stage area, behind self or on shelf above,

other option to use computer and Paint too with tablet, and screen capture drawings, and then compile into video,

http://elearningcentralia.wordpress.com/tag/camera/
http://blog.iso50.com/15588/how-to-shoot-stop-motion-from-above/
http://darlenedesign.com/wordpress/?p=5073

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