The Scene In Cinema 2021 | Reflective Writing 3

In Monday’s class, we saw two video clips and discussed how similar situations can coverage differently by different director. Both clips shows a two people conversation at the bar. However, in the gossip girl, the director simply use 4 shots, medium close up shot, close up shot and their reverse shots, through cutting back and forth to show the conversation to the audience, which consist to very traditional way of showing dialogue. The camera position follows the 180 degree rules. The 180 degree rules in the film is basically position the camera on one side of the audiences, in this way, you will get the characters facing each other consist the dialogue scene, otherwise, the characters will look like talking to same side, which confuse the audience. Compare to the gossip girl, the Fire Within shows the conversation with huge amount of different camera angles and positions. Further, it also breaks the 180 degree rule, there is shot connect directly from shooting the front image of two characters to their back but with no strange feeling as an audience. Thus, the 180 degree is can be broken as long as the scene is make senses to the audience. Directors can create similar situations with create different feeling to the audience by using different camera approaches to covering the scene. For the discuss clip Margaret, it’s a more complex situation. I’m a bit confused, the 180 degree changes with the action of characters. From the beginning of the scene, I’m not expecting the shocking accident until the traffic lights shows up twice. Editing the short series of scene together make the pacing quickly and enhance the tension atmosphere to the audience. In the next week, we need to create videos, this exercise focus on the camera angle and position, how to show story with still camera with different position and angle. I haven’t decided to shot which script.

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