cinematography and digesis activity 2

This extreme close up is from The Good , The Bad and The Ugly (1966 , directed by Sergio Leone) and it helps the audience to empathise with Blondie because we get to see his facial expressions. Furthermore, the extreme close up shot helps us to understand what is going through the characters mind because we get to sse his face in minute detail.

The opening scene of The Shining (1980 , directed by Stanley Kubrick) is a panoramic shot and this conveys the vastness of the environment and it also displays the isolation that the characters will experience because there is only one moving object in the scene which is Jack’s car and everything else is completely still and there is no movement whatsoever.

This medium – long shot from Star Wars (1977, directed by George Lucas shows the Stormtroopers and it gives the audience a full view of them and at this point in the film , the audience doesn’t know what  a big threat the Stormtroopers are so they may feel a sense of curiosity.

 

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