When we watch a film, we mostly put our
focus on the plot, the line and the actors and actress. However, we rarely put
our attention on the way of filming. In the article, it talks about different methods
of framing, which includes wide, medium, close-up shots, low and high angles.
The article gives us pretty much information and examples, besides the films
that are introduced in the article, I think one of the films I watched before
called “Do the Right Thing” also will be a very good example to illustrate the
concept of those words.
Director Lee of this film applies a large
amount of use of fast-speeding cut, canted camera angles and extreme close up
of the specific characters in the film. The film takes place in a dark down
with the majority of African American and a few white people. The whole story
is mainly talking about the conflict between black people and white people. There
is a portion in the film, in which the cinematography leaves me a deep
impression. In the very end of the film, the tension between white and black
bursts up into a serious fight. In order to highlight the intense relationship
between the white and the black, director Lee uses low and canted angle of
camera when filming the Black, and uses high angle of camera while filming the
white. Therefore, the black is shown in
a higher superior image while the white is in a relatively lower position. This
framing is effective to illustrate the interrogation and provocation between
the black and the white.
At the beginning of the Introduction to
Media and Sound class, Professor shows us two examples of “Video Without
Sounds” and “Sound Without Video”. As far as I concerned, the best way to
evaluate the filming of a movie is just to turn the sound off.
Here is the link of short piece of the
movie that I mentioned in my response.
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