This is a medium shot. Medium shots let us see a little bit of the background but not to much for us to see where they are. Medium shots also lets us see emotion on the characters faces. I think the director used a medium shot for this moment to let us see the emotion on the characters faces and how many people there are. Also the medium shot in this case creates s scene where it looks like these guys are after someone, which basically means our medium shot tells us quite a bit about what we need to know or see. In this shot we can see 5 officers clearly however overall in the view 6 are shown. The fact that not every police is shown in this shot makes us wonder where the rest are as surely seeing this many police officers would suggest there are more about.
This is a long shot. A long shot lets us see enough to know where the setting is and is this moment the setting is at the corner of a street and an old car is parked there, if you look closely you can see a guy there in the bottom right corner and it looks like he is running. Straight away you will assume that there is a danger that he is running away from and you will ask yourself why he has decided to turn into this corner of the street. The long shot is mostly used however to introduce a new setting and of course in this case it is the corner he has turned into. Longshots are also well used to spot detail in a shot that you may of not have noticed before.
This shot is a close up shot. A close up show lets us the emotion of the characters face. I think the director used a close up shot to let us see the emotion on the man's face. He looks like he is upset and worried so we may have sympathy for him, the fact that his eyes are directed on the left side of the screen clearly states he is looking at someone/some people which could possibly suggest theres a bigger reason to why he is upset. Half of the mans face in this shot is firmly blacked out showing there are two sides to him. This is a main reason why close ups are used they help us understand our character, to understand their flaws and how they are personality wise
WWW: Your shot types are basically accurate (perhaps medium close-up for the first shot?) and you've got some key words in there like emotion linked to close-up.
ReplyDeleteEBI: Overall, there's not enough depth to this analysis. You've seen the extended clip and I'd like to see much more analysis in terms of how these shots fit into the overall narrative. You could say much more about the alleyway or close-up, for example.
LR: Why did the director choose the alleyway location for the rest of this scene? Think about what it might suggest to the audience.