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Stina Dahl

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  1. Hi, I'm new here, and not exactly sure if I'm posting this in the right category, but I'll give it a try. I'm a film student in my first year, and right now our assignment is to write an analysis on... whatever we wanted, really. The whole point with the exercise is to show the teachers we can analyze something not only from an audience's point of view, but as a film maker. And it had to be something that you felt you could learn from and make full use of later in your films. So I chose cinematography, since I felt that was what I needed to learn more about (editing is considered to be my strong suit). And I went with Emmanuel Lubezki in Children of Men, more specifically the car scene. The analysis has to contain: - A question/hypothesis that we must answer/investigate. - A description of what we want to find out (no more than 25% of the final text). - The analysis - A conclusion I figured maybe I could try to look at the scene as a whole: what happens, the minus/plus strategy (bantering, laughing and having fun, then the exploding car, someone gets shot dead etc), basically somewhat a synopsis... and then find out how the unique cinematography in this film tells the story: unique camera technique and no cut at all during this scene. (WARNING: contains spoiler from the film) For example, what I have so far is that the camera sort of acts like a second person in the car. As if the audience is that person, in the car. The camera rotates and "looks" at the same things a real person would look at. When Julian gets shot, the camera moves away, as if turning away from the shooting, and then focuses the attention on the front shield breaking rather than having to look at Julian bleeding to death... And then there is at the end of the scene where they are pulled over by police officers, and we step out of the car, and one of them suddenly shoots both the officers. The camera has stepped out as well, and when the others get back in after making sure the officers are dead, we are left behind and have to watch the car drive away (from us). When I showed this scene to my class, I had several people commenting on this, and I thought it was really interesting. "Wait for me!" and "Let me back in!" I heard. (END spoilers) So what I want to look at is what does this technique do for the scene itself.. Why is it better than, say, doing regular shots inside the car with "normal" cuts. How would that have affected the audience instead? My question is, can anyone help me a little with this? Cinematography and its effects on the audience/scene/film is not something I know a lot about yet. What do you think I could write? Am I on the right track, can you help me elaborate? I have to write 4-6 pages about this. Any help is much, much appreciated. Thanks, Stina ps: I only have 12 hours left to finish writing this thing. I know. Help! ;)
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