Wakanda Battle - Black Panther Returns - Black Panther

Okay friends, here is my brief analysis of the first two minutes of this four minutes and forty-nine-second clip. I have watched this clip on .5x speed like 10+ times now, I fear my brain is getting a bit sluggish but oh well, here we go.

In the first two minutes, there are approximately 35 cuts. Nothing exciting about them, no dissolves or anything like that, just regular cuts. But they are fast. On average a cut happens every 3.5 seconds (though they don't work out that way.)

Cuts happen at the following times:

0:17 0:23 0:28 0:30 0:44 0:45 0:47 0:48 0:50 0:53 0:55 1:02 1:05 1:08 1:13 1:16 1:18 1:20 1:22 1:24 1:27 1:28 1:29 1:31 1:32 1:35 1:38 1:41 1:42 1:44 1:46 1:47 1:49 1:51 2:00

Now let's talk about these 35 scenes and what they look like!

0:00 - 0:17 → Outside in, we see the entrance of the cave, follow into the inside of Wakanda, and follow the plane upwards

0:17 - 0:23 → Medium close-up of M.B. Jordan's character

0:23 - 0:28 → Medium close-up of I'm assuming like the right-hand man 

0:28 - 0:30 → Medium close-up of M.B. Jordan's character

0:30 - 0:44 → Outside in, we see the plane crash and out of the explosion comes the Black Panther

0:44 - 0:45 → Close-up of M.B. Jordan's character

0:45 - 0:47 → Badass Lady exclaiming "he lives" in the left third area of the screen in a sorta medium close-up

0:47 - 0:48 → oh fu k look from the right-hand man in a medium close-up shot

0:48 - 0:50 → Longshot for the battle that is about to ensue. bird's eye view.

0:50 - 0:53 → [1/4 cross-cutting scene] Medium long shot of Black Panther as he walks towards the camera

0:53 - 0:55 → [2/4 cross-cutting scene] Medium close-up of M.B. Jordan's character

0:55 - 1:02 → [3/4 cross-cutting scene] Medium long shot of Black Panther as he walks towards the camera

1:02 - 1:05 → [4/4 cross-cutting scene] Medium close-up of M.B. Jordan's character

1:05 - 1:08 → High shot of the army

1:08 - 1:13 → Close on the plane/ship,  Inside Out, we watch the plan start on the ground and fall back into the cave

1:13 - 1:16 → Medium long shot with a focus on the plane/ship in the background, a tilt of the camera to follow the plane/ship

1:16 - 1:18 → Medium long shot, pan to watch the soldiers run

1:18 - 1:20 → Medium long shot, pan to watch the soldiers run

1:20 - 1:22 → Bird's eye view, probably a ped/dolly, a shot of the field and the soldiers

1:22 - 1:24 → Medium close-up of Black Panther and his mask coming on

1:24 - 1:27 → Medium close-up of badass lady 

1:27 - 1:28 → Medium close-up of M.B. Jordan's character (note I want to fucking smack that grin off his face ughhh, thank you)

1:28 - 1:29 → Close-on of the swords M.B. Jordan's character holds, nice zoom in

1:29 - 1:31 → Medium close-up of badass lady and her compadres

1:31 - 1:32 → Medium long shot, the badass lady assembles the rest of of the badass women

1:32 - 1:35 → Inside Out, medium close-up to a medium longshot of M.B. Jordan's character transforming

1:35 - 1:38 → Bird's eye view, a longshot of the ship and field

1:38 - 1:41 → Eye-level, a longshot of Black Panther being shot at and dirt everywhere

1:41 - 1:42 → Longshot of soldiers running

1:42 - 1:44 → Medium longshot of soldiers' assembling their shields

1:44 - 1:46 → Medium longshot of the backs of the soldiers and their shields focus on Balck Panther in the background running towards them

1:46 - 1:47 → Longshot, Black Panther jumps over the shields, probably a crab/truck or a drone following the movement

1:47 - 1:49 → close up on Black Panther

1:49 - 1:51 → long shot on black panther and all of the soldiers flying in the air

1:51 - 2:00 → longshot of black panther throwing a spear at the plane/ship and subsequent plane/ship crashing, probably a crab/truck or a drone following the movement

Whew that was a lot... now let's take ALL of that and put it in table form shall we

Now for lighting and photography, the film seems to be low contrast/high key the whole time as well as being in a lovely 16x9 aspect ratio. The image quality is high res. Exposure is correct.

Most of the sound is diagetic, onscreen, external, simultaneous, and synchronous. 

And that is it, I hope, for the beginning of this almost five-minute scene. I conclude my analysis here. I really hope I did this right.