The Woman King Analysis

The Woman King- Start at 7:15 end at 8:33 

In the movie this shot from 7:56-9:26

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)				Bigger than characters. Places. Cities.					The shot of the wall protecting the city 7:19
		medium shot (MS)				Waist up. Common “two shot” (see) à					While they are marching together they are shot from the waist up. 7:32
		close up (CU)				Face.					One of the women soldiers come up to the boy. 8:00
angle		Looking up gives them power. Looking down disempowers them.
		high				Looking down.					When the scene cuts into the grils marching it is shot at an angle as the camera starts moving to look down on them. 7:19
		eye level				Straight on from level.					When Nanisca is shown on screen she and Amenza are shot from an eye level. 8:20
		low				Looking up.					The camera is placed low. This not only highlights the natural light of the sun but to show how they are not to be looked apon. We as the audience are blinded by the sun and are not able to see them clearly in this shot. 7:46
movement		tilt				Stationary camera person, moving camera, vertical.					From 7:45-7:49 the camera goes from bottom
		ped/dolly				Stationary camera, moving camera person, vertical.					At 7:25 the camera is moving while the girls are marching in. This is shot vertically.
plane		foreground
		midground
		background
						Some shots reduce to foreground & background.		The Soldiers à			Since the focus is on the soldiers we only see them and the background shown in the shot. 7:31
								The large wall protecting the village à
space		onscreen	vs.
		offscreen
		open	vs.
		closed				The top is closed in.					The cameras main focus is getting the soldiers while they are walking. so the sky is not relevent to the scene. 7:28
						A mix…					At 7:45 we see the top of the screen which in this case is the sky. While we also see them marching in front of the camera.
diagonals		balanced/centered				The diagonals converge in the center, giving a sense of balance.		Large scale example à			At 7:28 we are shown them marching as they are in the center of the screen.
								Small scale ex. à			At 8:11 Nawi is shown on screen for a moment and is centered to the screen.
		oblique/unbalanced

exposure	The amount of overall light.
underexposure
“correct” exposure						You can see lights and darks.					7:25-8:09
overexposure
		in light				Washes everything out.					7:18 and 7:46-7:49
editing	The joining of shots together.
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 … à character				7:14- 8:22
						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: 8:11-8:17
	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.
invisible (ish)
		eyeline match				Romeo looks X Juliet’s there.					7:54 the boy and the soldier make eye contact. 8:09-8:11
visible		Jump cut				The camera cuts back and forth from the people to the soldiers marching.					7:32-8:12
		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. Very powerful music to enter the women soldiers onto the screen.
		onscreen			We can see the source that is supposed to be making the sound.					This is like 99% of film sound.
		simultaneous			Sound takes place at the time of the action onscreen.					This is like 99% of film sound.
		synchronous			Matching the action on screen.					This is like 99% of film sound.
		external			In the shared “real” diagetic world.					This is like 99% of film sound.

 

 

At 7:15 the scene opens with magestic music playing in the background to show the power and the streangth these young women soldiers hold. The sun blinds the sscreen a little at 7:17 just before tilting the camera to show them marching in the center of the road. The camera begins to move to the center showing a balanced picture where everyone marching in the center of the screen. The natural sunlight coming from the sky shows the ligths and the darkness in this scene. More lighting from camera lights might also be added to make the lighting seem more balanced in this scene. At 7:46 the camera is pointed up to let the sun blind us for  a moment. This could be to indicate to us an audience that we are not to look upon them. The lighting here also washes everything out with how the light is exposed to the camera.They are shot from there knees up in this angle of the camera to give us another perpective. Jump cuts are added to this scene to show the reaction from the crowd in this case the boy who wants to look at them. We are then given a close up in this scene before it cuts back in to the girls marching.