Sunday, 25 September 2011

"Monarch of the glen" clip - camera shots and movements.

At the beginning of the clip we see a group of middle aged male workers using hard tools of labour this indicates that this is a child free working environment. A dolly shot is used to show all the tools that the workers are using with a slow movement across the screen.
The next part of the clip shows an over the shoulder shot; it shows a conversation between the young man and the teenage girl. This shot establishes the location that they are in and a medium long shot was also used which shows her body from head to knee where we can see her costume. The costume was very casual which indicated that she was a young teenager. There was a PAN movement used where as the camera moves to the left making the girl in the centre of the screen.
Further on in the clip we see the young girl in the car. A close-up shot was used when we see her try and start the car and there is a look of uncertainty on her face which indicates that’s she underage.
We hear a car crash in the next part of the clip and a wide shot is used which shows the location where the young girl has crashed. A medium-long shot shows the crash in the foreground of the shot and the head teacher standing in the background, the crashed car could represent the young girl in this shot showing that she is underage and shouldn’t be driving. We see the costume of the head teacher in the background of this shot; he’s dressed very smart with a v-neck jumper with a typical head teacher beard which also shows the age of the head teacher. A tilt and PAN movement is used as the head teacher has a conversation with the carer and we see a huge height difference between the tall man and the head teacher showing how the tall man has power.
Further on in the clip a low angle shot is used which shows the tall man and the head teacher in a very old fashioned office. The wooden panels indicates the age of the office, the brandy in the decanter shows the age of the men meaning this is an adults only office. The experience and power is clearly shown in this low angle shot.
The next part of the clip shows the tall man shouting at the young girl. The camera zooms in to the young girls eyelevel which shows the emotion on her face and the audience is drawn into feeling sorry for the her as she is about to get told off.
There is an extreme long shot used in the next part of the clip which establishes the location of this part of the clip. We see a field full of sheep and other animals which build up to the men working with hard tools of labour.
We see a tilt, PAN and slow zoom camera movements in the next part of the clip. The tilt camera movement was used to reveal a close up shot of the goodbye note that the young girl left behind. The PAN camera movement shows the teddy bear in the young girl’s bedroom; this is a typical prop which young girls have in their bedrooms. The slow zoom is used on the family photograph which is in her bedroom. This emphasises the emotion that the young girl feels where she felt she had to run away.
A clever tilt is used in the next part of the clip where the camera starts from the bottom of the window ledge and up towards the top of the window. This indicates that this is the window that the young girl jumped out of to run away from home. A medium close-up is used where the old woman is looking out of the window that the young girl jumped out of showing a grandmother like feeling with a sense of worry on her face.
The final part of this clip shows the old woman running up towards the tall man with a very worried look on her face. A close up is used on the tall man which shows a guilt emotion where he has just found out the young girl has run away.



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