Thursday, September 8, 2022

Black panther attacks a convo in Nigeria

Analysis of minutes 8:00 to 13:00 (Black panther)

The shot 

Subtype 

Time 

Focal depth|implied proximity 

 

 

 

Extreme long shot 

12:02-12:05 (approaching wakanda region) 

12:24-13 (arrival to wakanda)

 

Long shot 

12:05- 12:08 ( inside the spaceship looking at the mountains)

 

Medium long shot 

11:40- 11:42 (okoye talks to the people who were kidnapped)

 

Medium shot 

 

 

Medium close up

8:22- 8:25 (black panther falls from the sky)

10:44 (black panther in the jungle)

10:55- 11:10 (black panther tells nakia his father is dead)

 

Close up

11:10-11:22- (black panther asks nakia to return to wakanda)

 

Big close up

 

 

Extreme close up

 

 

Close on 

 

Angle 

Bird’s eye

8:25-8:29 (devise falling off the sky) 

9:33-9:36 ( men walking across the jungle 

11:54-12:00 (spaceship leaves the jungle)

 

High 

8:02- 8:04 (black panther looking down at the kidnappers convo

9:28-9:29 (black panther looking from a high tree branch)

 

Eye level

12:14-20 (nakia and black panther are sitting in the plane

 

Low

 

 

Worm’s eye

 

 

Contend Dutch 

 

 

 

 

Movement 

Tilt 

 

 

Ped\dolly

 

 

Pan

 

 

Crab\truck

9:05-9:17 (military men are under attack) 9:

 

Crane\drone

 

 

POV\subjective

 

 

Handheld

9:58-11:00 (black panther and his team free the people kidnapped)

 

Dolly zoom\vertigo 

 

 

 

 

Plane

Foreground

8:00-13:00

 

Mid ground

8:00-13:00

 

Background 

8:00-13:00

 

 

 

Space 

Onscreen

 

 

Offscreen

 

 

Open

8:22 -8:26 (falling from the sky scene)

 

Closed

 

 

 

 

Diagonals 

Balanced\centered 

9:20-9:21 (women held captive by kidnappers) 

9:29-9:32 (men walking across the jungle)

9:36-9:38 (dog found in the middle of the jungle  

 

Oblique\unbalanced

 

 

 

 

Lighting

 

 

 

Low contrast\high key

 

 

High contrast\low key

 

 

Sidelit

9:02 (soldier has a close on scene into the camera)

13:00 (black panther stares at wakanda 

 

Underhead

8:36-12:00 (troop of kidnappers attack black panther)

 

Overhead 

 

 

Backlit 

 

 

Frontlit

 

 

Obie or eye light

 

 

 

 

Oddities 

 

 

 

Diagetic lights

 

 

Lens flare

9:33-9:34 (soldier flashes its light into the jungle)

 

 

 

Photography 

 

 

Aspect ratios 

1.33:1

 

 

1.78:1 (16x9) & 1.85:1

 

 

2.39:1

8:00- 13:00

 

2.75:1

 

 

 

 

Lens

 

 

Wide angle 

Deep focus 

9:56-9:59 (kidnappers start shooting at black panther) 

 

Fish-eye distortion 

 

Telephoto\zoom

Limited focal depth 

 

 

Flattened space 

 

 

Rack focus

 

 

 

 

Image quality 

 

 

 Film grain 

High grain 

 

 

Low grain

 

 

 

 

Condition

Degraded\unrestored

 

 

Restored

 

 

 

 

Quality 

16 mm

 

 

8mm

 

Video

“Quad” tape 

 

 

Hi8

 

 

 

 

Digital 

High res

 

 

Degradations\virtual grain

 

 

Low res

 

 

 

 

Exposure 

 

 

Under exposure 

Extreme 

 

 

Somewhat

 

 

Day for night 

 

Correct exposure 

 

8:00 to 13:00

Overexposure 

In darkness

 

 

In light 

09:43 (black panther found in the darkness)

Editing 

 

 

 

Outside in

 

 

Inside out 

8:20-8:22 (black panther exits the pane into the jungle 

 

Master shot & coverage 

 

 

Cross cutting\parallel editing

 

Montage

 

 

Invisible 

Match on action 

09:59-10:00 (nakia hits one of the kidnappers from the back)

 

Eyeline match 

9:38- 9:43 (men find black panther x quickly transition to eye

level of the boss)

 

Graphic match 

 

 

Shot reverse shot 

8:05- 8:21 (black panther having a conversation with Okoye)

10:28 -43 (black panther and nakia meet after some time)

 

The hook 

 

 

Lapping\sound bridge\ J or L cut 

 

Visible 

Jump cut 

 

 

Symbolic match 

 

 

Dissolve

 

 

Fade

 

 

Wipe

 

 

Iris

 

 

Animation 

 

 

 

 

Sound

Diagetic 

8:00- 13:00

 

Non-diagetic

9:40 (black panther is spotted 

10:52 ( kidnapper comes out of nowhere)

12:08- 13:00 (black panther arrives to wakanda)

 

Onscreen

 

 

Offscreen

 

 

Simultaneous 

 

 

Non simultaneous 

 

 

Synchronous 

 

 

Asynchronous 

 

 

External 

 

 

Internal 

 


Text form 

The film starts with Black panther looking down from a high angle at what seems to be a high-tech map of the mission. The scene transitions to a conversation between black panther and Okoye with a standard shot reverse shot. This edit is useful to have a human conversation between the characters and explain that black panther is scared of seeing Nakia again. The photography throughout this movie is 2.39:1 with correct exposure. Marvel movies usually rely on having similarities between them, so to make them homogenized. Then the scene transitions to an inside-out cutting style edit of black panther being ejected out of the plane. It transitions from a medium close-up shot of him unbothered falling off the sky to a close-on focus on the tracker falling off the sky. This helps the viewer have a linear transition in a parallel edit with a Tilt movement of the camera. The shot transitions to the kidnappers trying to decipher what's being tagged on their vehicles, we can see a complete plane in an off-screen space, which makes the viewer wonder where black panther is going out. The exposure is correct which allows the viewer to look around the jungle for clues, yet there’s a high contrast edit with an overhead lighting edition that can represent moonshine. As the military men are still looking for the black panther we see a couple of close-ons and medium close-ups conveying that something is out there hunting them. In addition, the crabbing of the camera helps to transmit a message that something is out there looking back at them. The men stumble into a barking dog in the dark, and then the camera dollies to see black panther up on a tree. He’s underexposed which shows the mystery behind this character. There’s a sharp sudden simultaneous sound when he’s discovered, and then the scene quickly transitions in an eye-line match style to the commander trying to reach out to his team. One of the kidnappers is quickly thrown into an automobile and the battle starts. The men gunning at black panther are sort of in a formation style in this show, but it is edited with a wide angle lens, which to me shows that these men are well trained and organized. The camera movement switches to handheld, making the battle look more realistic and helping the viewer feel like they are present in this scene. Nakia and black panther quickly disarm the armed men. This scene has a couple of match-on-action edits which are classic for any fight scene to see all the angles the battle is taking place. Nakia reprehends the black panther in a shot reverse shot conversation for almost hurting a boy. The non-diagetic music playing in the background suddenly starts again telling the viewer that while black panther was distracted, the battle has started again. Okoye falls from the sky and neutralizes the target. Sad non-diabetic starts playing as black panther tells Nakia his dad is dead. The team liberates the people who were kidnapped. This shot includes a couple of medium close-ones at the rescued people’s faces to show their gratitude towards the team



Medium close up shot on black panther. In addition his face has a high contrast, sidelit edit. 


Medium close up shot, medium scale centered. The exposure of the light is correct, with a backlit lighting 


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