The focal depth: Medium shots and Meduim close ups.
Angle: eye level
Movement: Ped/dolly
Plane: Foreground is the brother, Background is the window/wall
Space: Onscreen the brother, offscreen is the king
Lighting: backlit?
aspect ratio 16:9
lens:wide angle?
Image quality: Digital degradations added/virtual grain
Exposure: correct exposure
sounds: diagetic which is the sound of them talking, movement, etc. Non-diagetic would be the music they have playing,
you can talk about why they did a medium shot/ medium close ups throughtout the scene so we can focus on the facial expressions then whats around them and the lighting makes the scene a bit more dramatic and to why it is a bit darker since it does happen in a sad scene the lighting should be done darker.
ReplyDeletewhen you do your chart couldve put a description behind it so if some people never seen the movie they wouldnt be lost and can see how you view things instead of the way they view stuff but your on the right path. you could had went into more detail into the movie seems like you kinda rush it but if you can explain it a little more especially about the seen it would make things a lot better
ReplyDeleteThe scene you picked is outwardly simple, but upon going back to it I think there's a lot going on that you can work with. You can talk about how, in the beginning of this scene, Zuri/James is in the mid-ground behind, N'Jobu, out of focus, subtly foreshadowing how he is a spy meant to monitor N'Jobu. And when he speaks and brings himself in focus, it creates a surprise for both N'Jobu and the audience, and it becomes significant when Juri moves to the same spot behind T'chaka.
ReplyDeleteI think there's also something interesting going on with the lighting that you're hinting at on you're chart. When we see T'chaka, he is cast in shadow, where N'Jobu is back lit by the golden light of the window. You could make the assertion that these lighting choices reflect the motivations of/choices made by the character. T'chaka is trying to keep the existence of Wakanda a secret, and in this scene we learn he is covering up the murder of his brother. N'Jobu has been radicalized by the racial climate in America, and outside the window, behind him, is the outside world. You could say that N'Jobu is "enlightened" so to speak, while T'chaka is trying to keep Wakanda and N'Jobu "in the dark".