Sunday, April 22, 2018

Blog #3 Relationships Between Shots




The scene opens up with a long shot and zooms in turning the shot into a mid shot. These two shots show the area as the actor steps into the frame and ducks to fill the whole frame with his body. He walks closer towards the camera (approaching the dinosaur that we know is in the area because of the scene beforehand) and the shot turns into a closeup showing his face and the emotions he is feeling. 

Then the scene does a 180 and cuts to another mid shot showing movement in the bushes (almost a POV of the actor) indicating that the dinosaur is there in front of the actor. The camera then immediately pans down to a close up of the actor's hand putting his hat on the log in front of him. It then repeats the same sequence cutting to another mid shot of the dinosaur and panning back to a close up of the gun in the actor's hand. This sequence allows the viewers to know the distance between the actor and the dinosaur and shows the actor getting ready to kill the dinosaur. 

As the close up of the actor setting up the gun happens the scene then cuts 180 degrees again to another mid shot of the actor setting up the gun as It slowly zooms into his face to show his distress. Then the camera cuts down showing the actor perform the same action as he finishes setting up the gun but this time we are back to facing the dinosaur. 

Again another 180-degree turn is made and we are facing the actor again as he put his gun up and gets ready to shoot the dinosaur. The camera then cuts to the same scene but does another 180-degree turn and this time we view the same action as an over the shoulder closeup and we are able to see the dinosaur in the distance. 

It then pans to an extreme closeup to the side of the actor's face to set up the next shot and as it does this another dinosaur comes out of the bushes to attack him. The scene then turns 180 degrees to a closeup shot of the actor almost like a POV of the dinosaur looking at her prey. 

The scene then cuts to a mid shot of the actor getting attacked and then cuts to a mid shot of him getting eaten. The final scene cuts to a closeup of a snake and pans to the right to a closeup of the original dinosaur that the actor was hunting. Bringing the audience back to the original view of the dinosaur the actor was hunting. 

The editing is set up this way intentionally. It is showing the view from both the actor and the dinosaurs perspective and is allowing viewers to see what the actor is doing and looking at in a chilling and thriller way. It helps with the suspense of the scene. It gives us this almost western duel vibe and in the end takes us by surprise when the second dinosaur pops out. The camera angle sets up the scene as if there were only two subjects (the actor and the one dinosaur) It was intentional to create that surprise attack that the actor was unaware of and that the audience was surprised by. There were a lot of exmaples of matched action in this scene as well as 180 degree action.