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5 Master Shots in Film

I decided to take a combination of shots from the movies Get Out and American Sniper. Both movies are highly rated and personally a few of my favorites. Contrast: This scene was taken from the movie American Sniper. In this scene the main character, Chris Kyle, is shown in intensive basic training. Throughout this edit, multiple different parts of Chris's basic training is showcased to give the audience an idea of how intense the process is to become a navy seal. The last transition of this edit goes from Chris working out in basic training to working out overseas during one of his tours, which prepares the audience to see Chris in action. Symbolism: This scene was taken from the movie Get Out. In this scene the main character (who also happens to be named Chris) is talking to Mrs. Armitage, who has just hypnotized Chris. This scene shows the audience the process of hypnosis and uses the television set as a symbol, representing an unsurpassable gateway between the ...

Five Master Edits

Link: Five Master Edits Video Created by Francisco Antunez and Kaelyn Travis Contrast: For the contrast edit Kaelyn and I decided to create two different shots of a student with on showing the student hard at work and the other showing the student sleeping in class. The student hard at work is supposed to represent the typical image set for freshmen in high school. Whereas the student sleeping is supposed to represent the typical image of seniors in high school. Symbolism: For the symbolism edit we decided to take a shot of a book and transition to the Collier County Public Schools emblem (which contains a book) to symbolize the education that takes place in Collier County schools. Leit Motiff: For the leit motif edit we used a particular song (of Kaelyn's choice to clarify) to clue the audience in to the dance that was going to occur every time that given song is played. Parallelism:  Our parallelism shot begins with a shot of a person walking with white shoes. The sho...

Camera Shots in Film

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I chose to comment on a few different angles from the 2013 movie "Oculus" from producers Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans as I am a fan of Horror films and I was also inspired by my teacher Mrs. Henderson to enjoy a good horror film while completing this project at the same time. I also chose this movie because of it variety of angles in order to invoke equally as many emotions in the audience. Despite the movie being filmed inside I home for the majority of the film, the producers still did a fantastic job implementing different camera angles in order to incite different emotions. The first shot that caught my attention was this cameo shot which does a fantastic job showing time (one of the main characters) on a fairly neutral background. This helps enhance the emotion of the character in the frame which is what seems to be joy on the character Tim's face as he has just spotted his sister after finally getting discharged from a mental ward. This scene gave me a sen...

Camera Shots Commentary

I decided to comment on Ryan and Cori's blog posts. For Ryan's blog posts I decided to focus on the dolly shot, point-of-view shot, reaction shot, and extreme long shot. Both the dolly shot and point-of-view shots gave me a sense of excitement as I was left wondering what was next in the sense of the dolly shot and, in the sense of the point-of-view shot, I felt as if I were in the film myself acting through the motions of the character. For the reaction shot I felt a mix of emotions, as I felt both a sense of fear and excitement which are similar to what the character seemed to feel in the shot. I also enjoyed the extreme long shot as the wide angle and overall view of the background gave me a sense of understanding as it allowed me to make more observations of the surroundings. For Cori's blog posts I focused on the head-on shot, eye-level shot, low angle shot, and cameo shot. For the head-on shot I felt a sense of excitement as it was an action packed shot and made me ...