Cinematography final blog tasks

Three Colours: Blue (1993) -

The use of close-ups brings more attention to minor details which built up to the disruption that occurs. It helps the audience pick up ideas without even having any dialogue or voice over. The close-up's also helps the audience get some understanding on what type of setting it is; year, type of Country. The director has also used close-up to show characters facial expressions, no one shown in the sequence had happy expressions and they all looked dull and questionable which connotes something bad is going to happen, the director is building up towards a sad scene. 

Season 1, Episode 1 of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006) - 

The camera movement is used to show audience around the shooting spot whiles an intense scene is also taking place. They don't do a scene in the beginning showing the setting before the scene starts taking place like in the beginning of other cliche films or TV series. The camera movement also shows how quick everything happens behind the scenes and all the effort that goes behind it. The director has chosen to use long shots and medium shots to show the setting throughout the scene. As the audience are revealed more and more of the setting throughout the episode, it gives them a better understanding of what is happening. The shots are used to give clues of the setting; which is on a broadcasting set, this lets the audience know that the TV series is going to based on TV and broadcasting and could also be to point out the things that they do morally wrong.

13 Reasons Why (2017) - 

In this sequence, the director has used a lot of tracking and dolly shots. Dolly shots are frequently being used when the camera is following the characters movement; e.g. when the character is coming closer, the camera is moving further so it as if the audience are watching them as they walk. There isn't much use of close-ups which connotes that the director isn't trying to just focus on one persons emotions and expressions in this sequence. The camera switches from person to person when they're talking using medium shots so that audience are able to see their faces clearly whiles also being able to see the background. 

Citizen Kane (1940) - 

The director has used a variety of camera shots in this sequence. It begins with a series of long shots to show the setting followed by a few extreme close-ups so that audience can pay attention to detail. The non-diegetic sound added in the back is parallel as it matches the scene and doesn't sound weird. They have also used a lot of low-key lighting to create a mysterious, abnormal atmosphere. 

Moulin Rouge (2001) - 

The scene started off with a close-up so that we can see the expression on the protagonists face and pick up information from their facial expressions straight away. The scene changes so that audience get a mild understanding of what is happening in the scene. This sequence also contains non-diegetic sound as the character isn't speaking in the scene but there is a voice over, they have also used contrapuntal sound as the voice over doesn't match some of the scenes that are shown.