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 "sunken place" and the real world. 

Simultaneity:
This scene was taken from the movie Get Out. The scene shows the main character, Chris, and another African American male. The altercation between these two characters with use of a simultaneity edit is useful in cluing the audience in on the fact that Chris is in serious danger and he just doesn't know it yet.

Parallelism: 
This scene was taken from the movie American Sniper. This is the entry scene of the movie where Chris Kyle is shown in two different dangerous situations. One involves Chris shooting and killing a suicide bomber before he can detonate his car bomb, and the other involves Chris killing a mother and her child in order to protect nearby marines. The creators of this movie are very creative in the way they shoot these two scenes because of the way they use different angles focused on only Chris to create the sense of parallelism.

Leit Motif:
This scene was taken from the movie Get Out. The use of leit motif throughout the majority of this movie is shown through the repetitive sound and image of Mrs. Armitage stroke her cup of tea. The general meaning of this symbol is that Mrs. Armitage is about to take control of someone's mind through hypnosis.




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