Wakanda Battle Scene - "I'm Not Dead" Scene - Black Panther Returns Scene - Black Panther (2018) Movie Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ducbz9dZO2w
I chose this segment of the film because I like all of the panning and gimbal shots.
Scene :0-:12 the camera is essentially a drone this shot is also a POV/ I cam angle
Scene :19-:21 are "close up shots" of the three characters
Scene :23 is a "low angle- looking up" - we and the actors are looking up at the crashing space ship.
Scene :29 is an "extreme close up" shot because it shows that this character is the most effected right now.
Scene :34 is a moving "tilt" shot. The camera is going forward and up.
Scene :49 we see a "birds eye view" and a "extreme long shot" of the people and field.
Scene :50-:54 are "medium close up" shots of the two main characters. I think the reason for the sudden change of angles on the characters (the extreme close up shots to now medium) I think is because now they are trying to scale the two actors against each other to bring energy for the next clip.
Scenes 1:13-1:45 are filmed on a "telephoto lens". We are able to see this by how we are close up on the characters and the background is extremely blurred out.
Scene 1:37 "extreme close up" shot. This shot here is to show the audience the stress he is under by zooming in on his face so we can see all of the eye squints and face movement.
Scene 3:57 contains "on scene" noise. The noise of the rhino licking the women's face is on on screen and "synchronous".
This movie is filmed in the "2:39:1 aspect ratio" and is in high "quality, digital" form.
The lighting in this movie is set at "correct exposure", all though a few of the scenes are very bright.
Throughout this scene the cuts between different clips and characters are done by use of "cross cutting"
I have attached here the chart I used to analyze this scene.
the shot | A shot is an uninterrupted sequence of film/video bounded by edits. Note that camera and/or actors can move or zoom, and any elements below can change as that happens. | |||
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focal depth/ implied proximity | Closer to people’s faces seems more intimate and “about” the character, usually. | |||
extreme long shot/ establishing shot (XLS) | Bigger than characters. Places. Cities. | |||
long shot (LS) | Bigger than characters, but they are in the space. | Pride and Prejudice (2005) | ||
medium long shot (MLS) | Knees up. Often action scenes. | Wonder Woman (2017) | ||
medium shot (MS) | Waist up. Common “two shot” (see) à | |||
medium close up (MCU) | Chest up. | Moonlight (2016) | ||
close up (CU) | Face. | A Fantastic Woman (2018) | ||
big close up (BCU) | Some of the face is out of frame. | Vast of Night (2020) | ||
extreme close up (XCU) | A feature of the face. | |||
close on | Close up of an object. | Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) | ||
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sound | These 5 pairs of terms can overlap and serve to differentiate kinds of sounds. For example, a voiceover is diagetic… | |||
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| diagetic | Supposed to be in fictional world. | This is like 99% of film sound. | |
| non-diagetic | Not supposed to be in the fictional world. Usually the soundtrack. | Music (most of the time). Rare other possibilities. A narrator might be, although if they turn out to be a character in the world, no. | |
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| onscreen | We can see the source that is supposed to be making the sound. | This is like 99% of film sound. | |
| offscreen | We can’t see it at the moment. | Let the Right One In (2008) The sound of the door opening a second in. | |
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| simultaneous | Sound takes place at the time of the action onscreen. | This is like 99% of film sound. | |
| nonsimulataneous | Sound takes place at another time/place than the action. | A Christmas Story (1983) (watch to :15 to see hos the narration is synchronous, though) | |
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| synchronous | Matching the action on screen. | This is like 99% of film sound. |
angle | Looking up gives them power. Looking down disempowers them. | ||
bird’s eye | 90° down. | The Shawshank Redemption(1994) | |
high | Looking down. | Parasite (2019) | |
eye level | Straight on from level. | La La Land (2016) | |
low | Looking up. | Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) | |
worm’s eye | 90° up. | Psycho (1960) | |
canted/Dutch | Tilted off axis. |
lens | Films often use various lenses. | ||||||
wide angle | Allows for deep focus (multiple planes in focus). | Citizen Kane (1941) | |||||
| Can result in fish-eye distortion. | The Favourite (2019) | |||||
telephoto/zoom | limited focal depth | Casino Royale (2004) | |||||
| flattened space | Casino Royale (2004) | |||||
| Allows for rack focus | The Host (2006) | |||||
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image quality | Film is a sandwich of light-sensitive particles in fluidic emulsion sandwiched between harder layers of acetate. Less expensive and/or faster film leaves more unresponsive particles in the emulsion, leading to speckly grain. This can be an aesthetic choice (gritty, realistic, etc.) | ||||||
film | grain | high grain/grainy | Ghostbusters (1984) | ||||
| low grain/smooth | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | |||||
condition | Film degrades over time and needs restoration. Some films are left behind and forgotten. | degraded/unrestored | Mrs. Pollifax, Spy (1971) | ||||
| restored | Wizard of Oz (1939) | |||||
quality | smaller film stock | 16mm | El Mariachi (1992) | ||||
| | 8mm | The found footage in Sinister(2012) | ||||
video | “quad” tape | Videotape was standard for many TV shows from the 50s-70s, and some kids shows are still shot on it. | Watch a few seconds of General Hospital (1981) | ||||
Hi8 | Home video cameras are used, but rarely. | Watch a few seconds of The Blair Witch Project (1999) | |||||
digital | high res | | | ||||
degradations added/virtual grain | For aesthetics and/or to make it seem more “believable.” | The Joker (2019) | |||||
low res | Using simpler tech (phones, Zoom, etc.) | Host (2020) | |||||
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exposure | The amount of overall light. | ||||||
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underexposure | extreme | | Halloween (2007) | ||||
somewhat | | | Hereditary (2018) | ||||
“day for night” | Old trick to make daytime look like night. | The Leopard Man (1943) | |||||
“correct” exposure | | You can see lights and darks. | La La Land (2016) | ||||
overexposure | in darkness | Creates a glow or halo. | Lost Highway (1997) | ||||
in light | Washes everything out. | White (1994) | |||||
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editing | The joining of shots together. | ||||||
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styles | “classical cutting” | The norm for editing for 100+ years. The idea is to explain scene transitions in and out of a space. | |||||
| outside in | XLS à … à … àcharacter | |||||
| inside out | character à … à … à XLS | Captain America (2011) | ||||
| master shot & coverage | This is a ubiquitous style by which a director provides material to editors to give freedom to shape the film in the editing room. A master LS of the shole scene is filmed, and the MS or closer of each character is filmed; again the whole scene each time. It can all be put together in many ways. For example: The Dark Knight (2008) | |||||
| cross cutting/ parallel editing | Cuts back and forth between characters geographically separated and/or doing different tasks. Often these scenes have little to do with each other, and it is like we are watching mini movies woven together, but here’s an example where they are so connected the sounds lap over into the cross-cut scenes: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) |
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aspect ratios | See this diagram – the top 3 traditonally used 35mm film. | |||
1.33:1 (4:3) | Dominant size for pre-1950s films and pre-1990s TV. The natural, whole frame of 35mm film. | Citizen Kane (1941) | ||
1.78:1 (16x9) & 1.85:1 | Dominant size for 1950s-current films. Only a portion of the 35mm film is used. | North by Northwest (1958) | ||
2.39:1 | Anamorphic widescreen. Film is recorded by a lens that squishes the print down by half on width and it is restored in post-production. This made widescreen cheaper and easier than 70mm (see before and after[*almost* the same moment] of Spartacus [1960]). But the stretch can create odd visual artifacts à | |||
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) | ||||
2.75:1 | Panavision. Larger 65mm film stock. No distortions. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
Hi Carolyn, it looks like you have a pretty good idea about what you want to discuss. You have good data and the information all seems pertinent to what you find important. Now you just have to analyze it and figure out what message they are trying to deliver.
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