Friday, March 16, 2012
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Media 160_Sound-Image and Image-image Relationships
Primal Fear (1996)
I choose the Primal Fear upto first three minute as this assignment.
This clip has lots of shot-reverse-shots that show face expression of Martin and Aaron by turns. The shot size of shot-reverse-shots shift dynamically by the feeling of the moment. For example, when Martin came to see Aaron, the shot starts with medium shot. While Martin and Aaron exchange eye contacts the shots it alters to medium close-up shot. When Martin comes into Aaron’s jail cell the clip shows Aaron and Martin together as a long shot and by the time they are catching up the news the shot captures one person at a time with closer shots whenever it shift from Martin to Aaron and from Aaron to Martin showing their intimacy to each other.
It works really well when Martin, who trusted Aaron, gets suspicion against Aaron. It captures Martin’s face as medium close-up shot that shows his face-expression and background music starts coming out. The music has high-pitch and slow tempo creating tension. Martin looks back to Aaron and the camera comes back Aaron’s face. As if it follows Martin’s point of view, the scene shows hand-held camera movement. It shows Aaron’s side face that cannot be said if he is smiling or not. The tensional music builds up the feeling against Aaron who looked innocent just a minute ago.
Aaron is captured in medium close up shot at the time and at the scene that Aaron admits the truth, it cutsaway Aaron’s hands with close-up shot. The close up carries so strong impression with Aaron’s voice tone. Then, the scene captures Aaron as medium shot that looks farther away and it carries much less intimacy comparing the scene that they were catching the news.
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