Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Graphic match vs. Eyeline match
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)
Ozu is famous for ignoring the 180-degree rule. He didn't break the rule for the disorienting effect. As proof of this, his violation is not temporary. Let us now take a look at the scene in An Autumn Afternoon.
As you can see,...
How to break the 180-degree rule in your desired intensity
Steamboat round the bend (John Ford, 1935)
At first, Dr. John (Will Rogers) and Fleety (Anne Shirley) are at loggerheads over the marriage between his nephew and her. After driving away guys who tried to take her back, their relationship starts to improve. How did John Ford depict this...
Thursday, November 12, 2015
What inspires you to cross the 180-degree line?
Shot/ reverse shot is called 構図 KOUZU/ 逆構図 GYAKU-KOUZU in Japanese. 構図 KOUZU means composition. 逆構図 GYAKU-KOUZU means reversed composition. I discussed in the previous entry that If you need a precise reverse shot (GYAKU-KOUZU) of a shot (KOUZU), all you have...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Shot / Яeverse Shot
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
The above famous Russian roulette scene was dominated by what is called shot/ reverse shot. This scene consisted of the above 5 camera setups and a few cutaways. While CAM#4 is called the reverse shot of CAM#2, CAM#2 is called the reverse...
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Left side face or Right side face
In Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, 1937), Maria(Marlene Dietrich) is forced to choose between her husband Frederick(Herbert Marshall) and Halton(Melvyn Douglas) who calls her "Angel". It's called love triangle.
Like Snowpiercer (2013) which I took up at the previous entry, her...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
The wind blows gently from screen right to left
This video essay says as follows. The screen direction is a tool. Joon-ho Bong in Snowpiercer (2013) shows character choice by "Left or Right".
Snowpiercer depends on one simple rule: Camera left is the back of the train, while camera right is the front. And we gradually...
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