For our fourth assignment, we were told to watch a movie and take notes on different camera angles and shots we could find. I was excited to do this assignment mainly because after learning about different angles and shots, when I would watch movies on my own time I found myself over-analyzing it instead of focusing on the literal plot of the movie. I decided to choose Bird Box as my film for this assignment. In all honesty, I was going to do Insidious, but its 10:30 pm and I would like to sleep in peace tonight. Bird Box is a more ominous, suspenseful movie that I thought would have a multitude of different camera shots used to intensify the mood of the film.
Here are some prominent shots/ angles from the film Bird Box:
1. Establishing Shot
The establishing shot was extremely well done in this movie. It starts by setting the scene, as you see in the picture on the left, showing the setting in a forest area with a river, then moving the camera closer towards the main characters of the film, giving them a sort of "introduction" while also letting the dialogue in the scene tell the story.
2. POV Shot
POV shots are used more than once throughout this movie, effectively so. The main point of the movie is that the characters are unable to look at the outside world if they want to live, so including a POV shot in the film allows for the audience, like myself, to fully understand what the character is going through and seeing. It emphasizes a different level of perception for the audience.
3. Two Shot
Multiple two shot clips are used, especially in the beginning of the film. These types of shots are mainly used to show the connection/ interaction between two characters. Especially in the beginning of the movie, shots like the one on the left are used to show connection between characters, as it creates more depth later on in the movie.
4. Tracking shot/ Two Shot
This tracking shot was used to follow these two characters up a flight of stairs. Not only did this shot show the emotions of the two characters being tracked, but it also amazingly showed the background behind them, as other people are running in a hurry, emphasizing a feeling of fear in the scene.
5. Ariel Shot
Throughout the movie, there is a time jump between two different eras, both being significant to the movie's plot. In this scene, the Ariel shot being used clearly shows the surrounding location, and effectively shows the audience the situation the main character is in.
6. Wide Shot
A wide shot is used in this scene right when a new character is being introduced. This shot was beautifully done, as it shows the reactions/ emotions of other characters as soon as someone new is brought into the picture. This can possibly foreshadow or show importance to certain things.
7. Over The Shoulder Shot
This over the shoulder shot was done in a way that I hadn't seen when learning about the shot. Rather than doing the shot from the characters' back, this over the shoulder shot was done showing what was behind the character in focus, even blurring out anything in the background, in this case another character. It was done to show the tension between the two characters.
8. Close Up
The close up in this clip could also be classified as an over the shoulder shot, as the character's head and arm is in the left side of the screen, but mainly focusing on the close up of the shot, it does a great job at emphasizing the importance of the drawings shown. The drawings shown are also foreshadowing to events that will occur later in the movie.
9. Extreme Close Up
I always thought that suspenseful films would have a lot of extreme close ups, however this scene shown on the left is one of the only extreme close ups used in the entire movie. It makes the audience focused on the character's eyes as it changes, which is important because this scene is extremely significant to the movie.
10. Extreme Wide Shot
This extreme wide shot does a great job at making the characters look a lot smaller in comparison to the surrounding area. This can signify the characters becoming engulfed in the forest around them, which relates to what was going on throughout this scene.
11. Handheld Shot
The last prominent shot that I saw was the handheld shot used near the end of the film. Although the picture cannot show how the camera was moving, the handheld shot did a good job at making an unsteady feeling while the character was running. The handheld camera enhanced the feeling of confusion that the character was feeling.
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