Test Revision

Watch the clip from ‘Get Out’

For each of the shots discuss the:

· Shot size

· Camera angle

· Convention

· Composition

Describe the effect these techniques, rules and conventions have on the audience.

· How do they make the audience feel?

· What does the audience think the character is experiencing/feeling?

CU.

To clearly show his emotional reaction and his shock and despair

central placement – character is totally the focus of frame – all about his emotion

and experience. Camera is at eyeline level for audience to identify with character.

MCU – Camera at eye level

Shot/Reverse Shot – Eyeline Match – Over the shoulder shot

Rule of Thirds – Character is on the left of the screen with lots of look room even though she is basically front on

Audience can see the tension between these characters

MS ? MCU?

Subject looks powerless, small, weak

Central placement -

High angle or God’s eye – POV?

ELS

Character looks tiny – central placement

Shows the abyss he’s falling into, his hopelessness and the enormity of the

situation he’s in – not setting up a scene

camera is at eyeline level? -