The Verdict: I like these low angle camera
shots where we see Galvin, one time when drunk destroys his office, next time
when he does his detective work for his case and last shot when he was not
successful at lawsuit. My feeling from the low angle camera is that he lost
hope in life (first shot), agonized because he could not find the main witness
(second shot) and final shot where he is disappointed. In all shots I had
feeling that he is desperate but I believed that he will win the lawsuit. The low angle
camera shots, same as in The Conversation, give to the character somehow a
power to overcame the problems. Sorrow - it is the right word for the feeling.
The expectation was about: will he win the court? He is good in his work, what
he will discover in next sequences?
Witness: An Amish boy lost in world where
he is for first time. The high angle of camera supports the feeling that the
town is big and he can lost very easily in it. That shot (I think) represents
the next sequence where the boy will see a murder. The high angle tells the
world is so big, so dangerous and unpredictable. It supports the shots of a
statue of an angel with dead body. On the other hand, there is low angle of car
on horizon which represent oncoming danger. I know it is not shot of a person
but it has great emotional charge: who is in the car, why the car stopped on
the horizon, it looks very dangerous.
Psycho: I chose the high angles from the
Psycho. It looks that the high angle represents a danger, when we see the one
when Bates in a woman disguise goes directly to a detective with a knife in
hand we want to stop him or alert the detective somehow. The high angle in the
bathroom where the murder took place we see the couple who snoopy there. The
angle gave me feeling that there is something wrong and it is surely bigger
than they can imagine. The third shot is when the woman (I not sure but it is
sister of the murdered woman in the bathroom) goes to Bates house, this shot is
great. We know that there is the key to whole situation, there is his mother. I
had feeling that she is observing the oncoming woman. All it is about a danger, I think I hardly dare to enter that house. All shots
have a great tension and suspense.
Canted frame (Dutch angle): I found
examples of Dutch angle in film Twelve Monkeys where Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis
are discussing. The angle powers the fact that they are in sanatorium for mental
patient. The feeling here is that something is not normal and is distorted. The
second shot is from Pulp Fiction film. John Travolta and Samuel Jackson are
taking guns from a car trunk and we looking on them from it. Again, what is
going on here, why they are armed? I not
sure if the angle is the Dutch one, it is more low angle but it is diagonally
distorted, but I had feeling that they are very strange persons and the angle
helps us to be sure that somebody will have problems with them.
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