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Kill Bill Volume 1 Camera Movement Analysis
In the scene sequence from "Kill Bill Volume One" the director Quentin Tarintino uses panoramic travelling to establish where the scene setting is which is a Japanese club. The panoramic travelling and the scene setting also help to create a pace for the scene, which is initially at a moderate pace to ease the audience into the scene.
The tracking is then focused on Uma Thurman (The Bride), the use of this tracking shows that she has a definite sense of directionality. The close up angle helps set the mood of this character as she has a look of determination on her face, giving the audience one perspective of this scene. The smooth movement helps reinforce that she is on a designated mission.
The horizontal tracking view smoothly manoeuvres to a birds eye view to show more than one focus in this scene. Tracking shows the journey of the one character whereas the birds eye view shot showed not only the journey but the goings on in the rest of the building, such as the illegal drug lab parallel to the corridor. This shows that the innocent club is just a false cover-up to what actually goes on in that building. This helps the audience to understand the scene.
The use of subjective camera shows other characters movements. This is good for establishing the overall environment and emotions of particular characters. This is used in this scene to follow the landlady's movements. This also sets a faster pace, and as the camera angle is mid shot the audience can clearly see the facial expressions and hand gestures from a particular character. The use of backwards tracking limits the view of the audience to just the landlady and her male companions mid shot. This is tension building as we cant see whats going on around these two characters.
Panning and tracking is used to link two different characters movements. It is used to pass the focus of the scene from the landlady to the companion of Lucy Liu (O-Ren Ishii) This is also shows the setting again to remind the audience where they are after the viewing of the drug lab and the heightened tension created by the landlady. Again the changing of camera movement resets the pace yet again, the pace is slower and following this character over the shoulder in contrast to the fast paced backwards tracking of the landlady.
The tracking on this character builds tension as the focus on this new character allows the audience to view this scenario as an omniscient viewer.
The smooth manoevers between camera movements and angles are effective as it shows the audience different perspectives of the same scene. Also the angles help the audience understand the scene by showing the emotions of each o the characters. Another benefit of smooth camera movement is that it helps to show the linear sequence of events.
Zodiac: Trailer Review
Zodiac has conventions of a thriller. Some of these conventions are obvious such as the fact this film is based on a true story so people are intrigued to know if they could apply the story line of this film into their own lives. Also it is set in a modern city as we see from the establishing shot of opening clip of the trailer and is close to the reality of today so the audience are more likely to feel as if they can relate to the characters in this film. Another key convention of this trailer is that the setting is quite dark and gloomy looking which has connotations of evil and makes the audience feel weary as if they already know something bad is going to happen. A sense of investigation also helps to identify this film as a thriller as in many thrillers there is an ongoing investigation of some sort, usually the antagonist is very closely linked to the investigation. Though sometimes the opposite is applied and the antagonist is rarely seen at all to build tension. These conventions all help build suspense.
In the beginning of the trailer the first thing that grabs the audiences attention is the murder of a woman. This convention is an enigma code as it raises questions like "who is the murderer?" or "why did she get shot?". Enigma codes are extremely common in thrillers as it helps build mystery and creates a firm base for twists in the story. To reinforce the mystery the audience is given a very limited view with close up and bird's eye view angles of a man in the shadows.
The character of Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal) was presented as the protagonist as he is only a political cartoonist who has no connection to the case other than his predictable heroic skill of understanding the Zodiac code. This gives a sense of irony as detectives who have been working on the case for years turn to a mere cartoonist. Graysmith has a wife Melanie (Chloe Sevigny) this adds tho the thrill as the audience may want to see if she will fall victim to the Zodiac killer as a result of her husbands involvement with the case. From the trailer there appear to be two different antagonists, the first one being Inspector David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo). Toschi seems like as a possible antagonist as he is the most associated with the case so he ultimately has control on which direction the case goes in and who the suspects could be. He seems like a possible antagonist an in the trailer he is deflecting all evidence in the case as "circumstantial". The second potential antagonist is Bryan Hartnell (Patrick Scott Lewis) who we find out to be the murderer. But in the trailer the elements that make Hertnell a potential antagonist is that he is shown rarely and when he is on screen we have a limited viewing time or just a limited view which could symbolically represent that there is something to hide.
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