Wednesday, 5 October 2011

The Bird's Continuity Task..



There is a total of 17 shots in this particular scene;
The camera positons are as as follows:

Shot 1 - Long Shot
Shot 2 - Mid-Shot
Shot 3 - Long shot to Medium Shot (slow zoom in)
Shot 4 - Mid-Shot to Long Shot (she walks away)
Shot 5 - Mid-Shot
Shot 6 - Close-up Shot
Shot 7 - Close-up Shot
Shot 8 - Mid-Shot
Shot 9 - Close-up Shot
Shot 10 - Close-up Shot
Shot 11 - Close-up Shot
Shot 12 - Long/Mid-Shot
Shot 13 - Mid-Shot
Shot 14 - Close up Shot
Shot 15 - Close up Shot
Shot 16 - Long Shot to Mid Shot, Low angle
Shot 17 - Long to Close-up to Extreme close up Shot (she runs towards the camera) Low angle at the end.

Shots&Techniques
The first shot from this clip is a long shot, showing the distance traveled by Tippi Hedren as she walks to the door building up the tension for the audience.. It is carried on with a medium shot establishing she's come to a stop now, and shows her knocking on the door. As she gets no reply she goes on and lets herself into the house, this is precisely when the first series of continuity shot takes place; The shot is initially outside the house at a mid-shot when she opens the door and then the next shot takes place inside the house as she walks through, as the shot changes it took place very smoothly and is very precise showing good continuity editing.

Another example of continuity follows almost straight after in this scene as, Tippi Hedren walks through the second door, while it still stays as a medium shot past the kitchen; Then in the next shot she is walking through the door, which follows to a long corridor with a number of rooms, this also is edited smoothly giving the audience a lay out of the setting and hinting the whereabouts. As the audience it grabs our attention, to keep track of where she's going and makes us wonder where she's heading.

As she continues to travel down the corridor she comes to a stop when she appears in front of the room she wants to examine.. at this point a close-up shot is used to inform us of her expressions and reaction. Continuity is yet again used impeccably to show her walk past the room and then we're able to see her from inside the room looking out at her. Then the action takes back in reverse order as she rushes out the room and down the whole way again using the match-on action to show her hurry to get out of the place as she's shocked and in horror. The scene misses the whole chunk as she passes through the kitchen and focuses straight onto her running out of the house, showing her horror.

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