Hello! today in class we practiced a little more of the writing about what we see in clips and describing how the audience should feel when looking at particular scenes. I picked a particularly gory clip (on accident) so I cut out most of the action and wrote about what I could.
The Platform - Trimagasi's death Scene (HD 1080p)
The blurry, high-key (0:01) lighting at the beginning of the clip sends almost an eerie vibe to the whole scene, soon after the character who was in shallow focus is then shifted to a clip of that same character with a prop (a knife) and then another character tied up (0:10), with a facial expression that looks almost disoriented or dazed. The camera then shifts back with a mid-shot of the character (0:15) caressing the prop (the knife) and making what sounds like a non-diegetic sound added for the special effect of enhancing the terror or anticipation the viewer should feel when seeing this scene. Then a clip with a low angle of the character slowly walking up to the tied up character is shown and zooming in slowly towards his poker face, making him look relentless and unmerciful (0:19). In a conversation between the two characters as the knife approaches the character who is tied up, it is revealed that the person holding the knife wants to take meat off the other character's body so he can eat. The makeup of the two characters, which makes them look dirty and the character who is tied up looking bruised, combined with the background sound of what seems like a low hum, adds to the tension of this scene. By this point (1:09), there seems to be low-key dim lighting around both characters, and a tear rolls down the face of the character who looks to be tied up with white bedsheets up to his neck. This, combined with the contrast of the dark background (symbolizing perhaps death or doom) and the bright white bedsheets wrapped around the character, comes to create a sense of defeat from the tied-up character as well as pain. As the old character holding the knife smiles (1:11) with a complacent look towards the defeated character, the audience questions what will happen next and feels disturbed by his next moves. The old man then proceeds to use the torn-up white bed sheet (prop) to cover the mouth of the injured tied-up character (1:17).
My chosen edited clip:
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