Found Scene Analysis – Doors

Shot begins with Van running down the stairs hurriedly, there is only a close up of her shoes so the audience does not see her face until the next shot. When she turns the corner, she tries to snoop quietly though this is in vain. Here, the camera, hand-held, follows her as if the audience are snooping with her. As Cine opens the door and calls out to Van, the audience is able to see his face clearly through a well-lit medium close up. Cutting back to the hand-held shot we can see, in the foreground, Van’s troubled expression and Cine in the background, who is asking her for her name.

Van slowly turns around to face Cine. The camera is re-positioned to show her face from the front, still in a medium long shot, though the lighting here allows for a better view of her face. The shot-reverse-shot pattern is continued until Cine cuts her off and drags her elsewhere. As he does this, they two are filmed in a medium long-shot though it eventually turns into a medium close up as the characters walk towards the camera and the tracking stops. The camera movement helps to highlight the action in this shot.

At this point, X makes an appearance, asking ‘What’s all this racquet?’. The mid shot emphasises her confusion and frustration. The following cut shows Van and Cine (who has now let go of her arm) framed in a mid long shot, enabling the audience to see both their reactions to X. When X finds out Cine’s name, she similarly blurts, ‘What kind of a name is that?’ in the same manner Cine did to Van earlier. The screen cuts to mid shot where X drags Van into her room, though X is in the foreground, the emphasis is on Van who is visibly taken aback by this action. Cine walks to the right out of frame looking displeased. In this last shot there is a moment of, not necessarily discontinuity but rather, awkward editing. The speed at which Van was dragged inside the room does not correspond with the speed Van was moving in the mid long shot which could be jarring to some viewers. The scene concludes on an image of doors which matches the scene’s name.

 

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