cinematography

world war z
this is the opening scene to the movie world war z, where we can see a family in their car speaking; whilst being in traffic. moments later, through the car window, they see many people running and then an officer breaks the cars side mirrors. brad pitt, the main protagonist, storms out with confusion and then an officer pleads that he remains in his car for the families saftey. instantly after this a big track smacks him.

within this opening scene we can see there has been great use of camera positioning to reveal the true narrative of the cinematography. firstly, within the first 3 seconds of the clip the producer has utilized a establishing shot, which shows the location of the opening sequence and in order to allow the audience to know where this scene is being set at.

then moments later there is use of long shot, where the camera has been placed on the front car mirror, which allows us to see all the people in the car. which mother, father and 2 little girls sitting on the back seats. from the use of the long shot we can see that there is calm,peaceful and friendly enviroment in the car; where the family are playing games.

then there comes the part of the clip where the officer storms past the car and then hits the left side mirror, resulting to it breaking. there is use of close-up to brad pitts ,main protagonist, face. from the use of the close-up we can see that brad pitts emotions and attitude at what has happened. with extreme annoyance and frustration, he leaves the car to see whats going.

after leaving his car, there's an explosion far down the road and the producer has employed a long shot to illustrate this part of the clip. the use of the long shot allows audience not only witness the explosion but to also witness the people in clips quick reactions and overidding fear. the use of the long shot continues to next part of the scene, where everyone is running for the lives. the use of a long shot allows us to see the people running feet to show there speed to support the ideology of the fear they're experiencing at that moment of time.

a police officer on a motorcycle comes by his car and tells him to get back in his car. after entering his car there is use of over-the-shoulder shot. the employment of over-the-shoulder shot allows us to see the officer and witness both of their emotions at the same time. furthermore, the use of the over-the-shoulder shot allows us to see the scene where he is hit by a big truck.

Learner Response on presentations

WWW: There was a difference between the contrapuntal and parallel images, which allowed us to get clear understanding of the difference between them. The video that was selected to illustrate the images was very interesting itself because it showed calm music and bloody crime at the same time. The music chosen was unique and quite different to what others had picked. All of the images in the collage were explained

 EBI: I could have arranged the images to make it look more like a collage and select image that showed clear differences. Could have had more inferred contrapuntal images instead of obvious ones. Could have explained my choice of contrapuntal images a bit more

 Top 3: Mamduh Harkiran Abayomi

Youtube video sounds

Within this film scene we can see that a man, dressed in a suit, has 2 men held hostage in a dark room alone. There's many blood and weaponry involved within this particular scene. However, there is great use of contrapuntal sounds, which allows us to to think more deeply about this situation. Firstly, this is brutal action scene but on the other hand calm, peaceful and classical music is being played. This isn't right as it doesn't fit well with the scene of brutality. Furthermore, the is use of both diegetic and non diegetic sounds. For example; the men speaking shows dialogue as so therefore evidence of non diegetic sounds. The use of the music at background and different noises show evidence of diegetic sounds. You could argue that there is use of sound bridge as the same sounds continues onto the next shot.