The master a film made by Paul Thomas Anderson. – Close Up
- This close up has so much power in one single shot focusing on one Lady, her emotions are very clear and the close up really makes this shot rather quite incredible. You can see every detail on her face, which adds that personal touch.
- This is why close up shots are consistently used in films, a close up zoom on someone’s face to show emotion, or to zoom into an object to signify something or give meaning.
Avatar filmed in 2009 by James Cameron – extreme close up
- This incredible shot taken from avatar is really quite beautiful, we wouldn’t expect to see so much power and emotion from a non realistic human but this avatar grabs us in and really focuses us on what is happening with the good use of vivid colours shown, it almost makes us want to know what she is focusing so powerfully on however the crisp dimension of this shot is enough for the audience.
- Extreme close ups are often used to zoom at an object to view the detail or the symbolic meaning, or to show a feeling or a powerful emotion as shown in this avatar picture. Extreme close ups have the same intentions as a close up but in more specific detail.
Over the shoulder shot in Harry potter
- I really do admire this shot taken in this Harry potter clip, we distinctly know who the character is facing Harry and we can clearly see by Harry’s emotion, we are sided with harry though we are looking over Voldemort’s shoulder we see what Voldemort is seeing yet we as an audience portray two different emotions which really is effective in binary opposites and over the shoulder shots.
- Over the shoulder shots are often used with two people to create a hiercahy or an ery feel especially when portraying the shoulder character as hidden mainly the villain or the backing character. They aren’t focused in the shot as the focus is on the main character as shown beautifully in this shot.
Reverse angle shot – Good fellas
- When viewing this good fellas clip of the two men eating, a very distinctive reverse tracking shot is used which I find very unusual as the characters/objects are usually in movement or walking when tracking shots are used. So it was really fascinating to see the reverse tracking shot with the two men eating and sitting down yet we are still fully engaged with there conversation.
Long shot portrayed in the boy in the striped pyjamas
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows” – Betjeman
- A beautifully portrayed film has thought very well of the shots used, this scene is at the very beginning, this simplistic quote is used to open the scene and we get a huge contrast in this wide shot to the surrounding scenes of trucks and the vibes of war to 4 boys playing and mimicking air o planes which really contrasts really well and the different lives they live. This shot show there whole body it tells us a lot about the boys, the mise en scene what they are wearing tells us there age there class and where they come from, which is powerful as there is so much going on in one scene but wide shots are important to get the setting across to the audience which has been done very effectively in the boy in the striped pyjamas.
- Wide shots are used to set the scene and to tell a lot about one scene, often backgrounds with full body shots with them embedded into the scene.
Two shot in the BBC two part adaptation of Birds song
- This two shot really shows that though the man is blurred we can still feel his emotion and its what he feels, blurred to the lady who is focused upon who feels pressured and I feel that this scene is captured quite well and very realistic linking to realism of that society. It really is amazing how the whole background is blurred yet I still feel that this Is a two shot as the man can still vividly be seen by the audience and we still capture the way he feels about her.
- A two shot is hugely focused on two people but this BBC adaptation have twisted it slightly which has been done very well.
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