Today, we studied the different range of camera angles, ranging from the tracking shot to an extreme close up and what these different angles portray the characters emotions, feelings and expressions during the overall shot. From my studies, I know that an extreme long shot shows the time and location of the setting/scene and that sometimes characters may be in this shot. Also this shot is often used during the start of a film to present the viewers with information of the storyline or narrative. Also in this lesson, we studied the beginning of the film 'The Book of Eli' and I wrote notes on the setting, sound, camera angles, narrative, character and gender. I found that the setting was very dark and mysterious and had the feeling that it was autumn with all the fallen leaves on the ground in the forest. A lot of sounds were going on during the opening, for example the use of the creepy music built up the tension before the cat got shot. Lots of camera angles were used too, for example, a tracking shot followed along the forest to show the gun, which led to the body, showing that obviously the man had committed suicide and then the cat in the back ground slowly approaching the body and then moving onto the person with the gas mask on which then became an extreme close up but also could be interpreted as the cats point of view. This opening doesn't really give a lot away for the narrative of the story, all we can really work out is that this is obviously a dull time in the world. As there are only a few characters in the opening, one of them is dead and one is wearing a gas mask, with a bow and arrow, obviously protecting the body, or killing the cat for food. Gender is an interesting subject for this first scene, as there are no women shown purposely and we assume that the person under the gas mask is a male character.
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