I chose a clip from the movie
Breathless, a 1960’s French film. This clip
is the end of the movie so the shots display the last emotions of the
characters. The gangsters at the beginning of this scene are looking to kill,
the shots are long shots of them in the car and of them shooting Antonio, the
main character. The movie thus far has been light but also full of emotion and
dramatic scenes between characters, I feel like this shot lets us look and take
everything in at once to end the story.
Long shots are used to show Antonio running away after he is shot. They never
show his front while he is running away nor do they zoom in. the camera position
is shaky, just like his running. When the camera cuts to Patricia, they use
close-ups as well as medium shots, in order to show her emotion. Since both
characters have been emotionally involved the whole movie, these distinctive shots
are used to separate them.
The music in the background is
used to amplify his running after he is shot. The worse he gets the more
intense the movie gets. The music softens at the end after he dies.
There
is no color and the lighting is natural. Interesting, since many times in
movies deaths are set in the dark. Overall thsi scene isn't set in a way that traditional movies are shot for a dramatic ending, which is why I like it, it has minimal close-ups and the camera cuts lightly, not over dramaticly. Breathless Scene
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