The film that I chose to analysis is called The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(2013). The scene that I chose is one of my favorite scenes in this film, it is the beginning scene of the downhill longboard at Iceland. At the beginning of the screen, the camera is following the running protagonist in a medium shot. Then, there is a cut into a super-wide shot by the drone where the protagonist sees the boundless landscape, which also makes the viewer see how tiny he is when he compares with the landscape. The next shot is an eye-level, medium shot that shows the top half of the protagonist’s body with his confused eyes. After that, there is a low angle, long shot from the distance left, the backside of the protagonist, which shows the loneliness of the protagonist, and the question of how could he go to the place he wants. Then, the shot cuts back to the eye-level, medium shot of the protagonist. The next shot shows the protagonist’s point of view of the wide landscape, and then a close up of the landscape shot which shows the road towards the town where the protagonist needs to go. Then, the shot cuts back the medium shot of the protagonist again, and the protagonist leaves the frame. In the next 25 seconds of the scene, the shot shifts between the objective point of view and the subjective point of view with continuity editing to show the activities of the protagonist that he is preparing to slide down the hill.
Reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kurY9aSolo0 from 0:15-1:19sec.
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