Shot Distances (Activity 2)

Baby Driver (Dir. Edgar Wright, 2017)

Eye-Level Close Up:

 In this scene from Baby Driver, the DoP (Bill Pope) has created a shot where the Main Character, Baby, is looking towards the camera, however he is not in focus. the camera is focused on the toy car and this is used as foreshadowing as later in the same scene, the car is pushed off of the table – hinting towards the car crash that happens later in the film.

The Shining (Dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

Extreme Close Up:

This famous scene from the Shining Uses an Extreme close up on the character of Jack Torrance (played by Jack Nicholson) to portray the levels of insanity that the character has gone to, and is also used to unsettle the audience. The use of this extreme close up also helps show the audience that there is nothing left of Jack Torrance, as we cannot see his body. it effectively shows how the character has completely changed, to the point where they are almost different people.

Logan (Dir. James Mangold, 2017)

Long Shot:

This Shot gives the audience time to realize how hurt the protagonist of Logan (Hugh Jackman) is. In this film, his power is the ability to heal his wounds, and while it was hinted at previously in the film that he was becoming weaker, this shot confirms it to the audience.

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