Blog #3: Analyze a Scene


Pride and Prejudice is probably one of my favorite movies so it was a no-brainer that I’d pick a scene from there to analyze. In the scene that I chose we see many different uses of camera angles and positions to give add to the piece. The scene starts off with a close up of one of the character’s leg, bouncing lazily to a song she is humming (diegetic sound). The shot then pans up (dolly shot/tracking shot) her body giving us an open frame before switching to a closed frame/wide shot, showing the rest of the family in the room. We then hear a sound from off the screen (non-diegetic) and the camera then changes to a medium shot of the new person who walked in, reaction shots of the other people in the room and then a medium close-up of the actress staring out the window. Then there is a tracking shot for the mom as she moves about the room, before showing reaction shots from the others as they rushed to clean. We then get a point of view sequence from the main character after she hears who the other guy is outside; we get a shot of her face/reaction when she first hears, then we follow her to the window and see what she’s seeing from the window and then the final shot is of her reaction to what she saw. For the next 10-15 seconds we go from tracking shots, with medium shot length to quick reaction shots. At certain times it switches to a close up of a certain character’s face. We end the scene with a wide shot of the room and then a medium shot of the two men before switching once again to a wide shot of the women in the room.

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