Creed Analysis

 Tobey Wills 

  I chose to do my analysis on the the movie scene from Creed where Adonis goes to Rocky's restaurant to meet him for the first time. Rocky does not know Adonis exists and does not believe he is Apollo Creed's son. Adonis asks Rocky to be his boxing coach and talk about his father, but Rocky declines and tells Adonis he should be a boxer after his father died boxing.

 Here is a long shot of Adonis when he first shows up at Rocky's restaurant and looks at the pictures on the wall. This is also a closed space because the viewer can tell he is in a building and feels like he is trapped in the room. 0:16:51

Here is a low shot in the scene to show that Adonis has power and making Rocky feel bad that he was never there for Adonis. It shows Rocky is sitting down in the Foreground to show that Adonis is looking down at him while convincing Rocky to train him. 

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.
focal depth/ implied proximity		Closer to people’s faces seems more intimate and “about” the character, usually.
		extreme long shot/ establishing shot (XLS)				Shows the outside of Adrian’s. The restaurant Rocky owns.					0:16:35
		long shot (LS)				Adonis looking at all of the pictures of his dad and Rocky					0:16:51
		medium close up (MCU)				When Rocky first appears					0:16:57
		close up (CU)				Rocky’s face of confusion					0:18:38
		big close up (BCU)				Half of Adonis face is showing					0:19:47
angle		Looking up gives them power. Looking down disempowers them.
		high				When Rocky is sitting down					0:19:32
		eye level				Rocky telling Adonis he looks like his father.					0:20:00
		low				Looking up at the picture of Apollo fighting Rocky					0:16:51
plane		foreground						Rocky			0:17:09
		midground						Adonis
		background						Pictures on the Wall of Rocky
space		onscreen	vs.			Seen in frame.		Adonis looking at pictures			0:16:51
		offscreen				Out of frame, but still existing.		Rocky coming up the stairs
		closed				When Adonis is leaving the store.					0:20:35
diagonals
		oblique/unbalanced
								Looking at each other.			0:18:13
lighting	Note the way 3-point lighting works, first. The fill light removes shadows. The back light makes figures pop from the background.
high contrast/low key						:
		sidelit				Side of Rocky’s face is lit while talking to Adonis.					0:19:54
		overhead				Close up of the pictured and the light is shinning down					0:16:49
photography
lens		Films often use various lenses.
		wide angle				Rocky first sees Adonis in his restaurant					0:17:01
		telephoto/zoom				Focusing on Rocky					0:17:14
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.)
		digital		high res					Used the whole scene to focus on the chracters		0:16:27-0:20:40
exposure	The amount of overall light.
“correct” exposure						Adonis is telling Rocky who he is					0:18:13
editing	The joining of shots together.
						outside in	Goes from Adrian’s to inside to Adonis looking at the picture to the picture				0:16:35-0:16:50
	some cut types	For the examples below, look sharp! The edit is pretty immediate (and indicated by the “X” in my descriptions below.. And because edits can be quick, make sure you see the first one, otherwise 3 or 4 edits will go by and you’ll wonder which it is.
		eyeline match				Adonis looks then Rocky is there					0:16:52
		graphic match				See Rocky’s back while sitting down then the front of him					0:19:00
		shot reverse shot				Tell Rocky Apollo is his dad					0:18:24
		the hook				“How do you know all of this?”  then cuts to a picture of his dad and the resemblance.					0:18:15
sound	These 5 pairs of terms can overlap and serve to differentiate kinds of sounds. For example, a voiceover is diagetic…
		diagetic			Supposed to be in fictional world.					This is like 99% of film sound.
		non-diagetic			Music plays from the soundtrack when starting the scene.					0:16:30-0:16:43
		onscreen			Rocky walking up stairs and closes door.					0:16:55
		offscreen
		simultaneous			Rocky talking and walking up the stairs.					0:16:50-0:17:00
		synchronous			The sound of walking up stairs matches his foot steps.					0:16:50
		external			Throughout the whole scene hey talk to each other.					0:16:30-0:20:35