In this Hollyoaks clip it uses many medium shots and close ups of most of the McQueen family to show the emotions on the character’s faces as an important decision has to be made and they are all scared about what will happen.
A lot of the camera work that focuses on Nile uses shaky camera movement, this is because Nile is the one who is moving lot during the clip and the camera is following him. Also I think that the shaky camera reflects how unstable Nile is as he has his head in his hands showing that he is unbalanced. During this first part there are a lot of fast cuts as there are a lot of people in the scene and the audience needs to see their emotions. It also builds up tension as Mira still has to decide which two of her children she chooses to die.
A crabbing shot is used when Tony, Daran, Dom and Jack are running to get to the church. It moves from looking at the church notice board to them running down the path to the door. This shot is used to gain a sense of movement and urgency as they know what is happening inside the church. Shot reverse shot is used as we see them running towards the camera and then it cuts to the back of them getting to the door. This is to make it look like one run to the door, so the audience can get the best angles when it was actually done in more than one shot.
Two shots and medium close ups are used to show the characters and their emotions. There is still some use of the shaking camera movement which reflects the panic the characters are going through. The cuts between shots as it starts to get faster as the pace is building. When Jack breaks into the church there is an amplified sound of the crashing and the background music changes to a higher pitch and gets louder, which builds up the tension. There is then an extreme close up of the detonator in Nile’s hand. Which is making a beeping noise that gets faster as the cuts get faster adding to the tension just before the explosion.
It then cuts to a long shot of the explosion followed by a series of fast cuts showing characters and objects in medium and close up shots falling during the explosion. There is then a long shot looking at the church from the outside, where the window shatters with an amplified sound of breaking glass. It then cuts to Tony and Dom as glass falls on them, it cuts back to the window and then to the door bursts open.
After the explosion there is a continuous shot of the broken window with pigeons flying through it to show the still and silence after the explosion and to contrast it as there had just been a lot of fast cuts. This then fades to inside the church where there is debris everywhere. It then reverse zooms out so the audience can see more of what has happened. It then reverse zooms into smoke which then fades into the closing credits.
Through out this clip certain sounds have been amplified such as heavy breathing to show how scared they are or running footsteps to help create a sense of urgency. As the build up to the explosion begins back ground music is played which gets louder just before the explosion to emphasis what is happening. Also at the end of the clip when it zooms out of the debris music is being played which reflects the sadness and the silence after the explosion which music keeps playing through the credits to keep the audience thinking about what they just watched instead of the usual Hollyoaks credits.
Monday, 3 November 2008
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Very Good ;D!
Shaky camera work- Hand held
;D
and you didn't say about the music creating tension through out the clip.
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