{"id":844,"date":"2019-01-27T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/?p=844"},"modified":"2019-03-01T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:18:22","slug":"motion-picture-analysis_caitlyns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/motion-picture-analysis_caitlyns\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion Picture Analysis1_CaitlynS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After watching, Inja<\/em> twice during Advanced Story Telling and Time Based Media, it was clear that the camera crew and editors used purposeful tactics to tell their story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most obvious choices they made was the lack of dialogue within the story. Therefore, the majority of the story was told by watching the characters and their actions. This made the few pieces of dialogue shared in the video, all the more significant. It did mean though that the B-roll and footage the camera crew filmed and the intentions of the actors had to be obvious enough to guide the viewer through the story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other observations that were made was the frame of the clips, their sequence, and their transitions. The frame of the shots helped give the viewer the information they needed to understand the story. If the main character was stressed and panicked, the camera would focus entirely on their face. If the character was nervously cutting rope, hoping to not get caught, the sequence of the clips would switch between nervous fiddling hands, their face, a wide shot of the surroundings, to those in the surroundings. The transition between these clips were also timely enough to make it suspenseful and build up anxiety in the viewer. The audio used in this specific scene only helped aid the clips as they hoped to create concern amongst the viewers. The cutting of the rope, the chattering voices, it makes it more real like you are the one there nervously cutting the rope hearing approaching voices nearby. It induces panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last scene was one of the best examples frame wise, audio wise, and transition wise. When the boss fell due to some sort of cardiac pain, the dog got aggressive, the worker panicked. The clips showed frames of the boss lying on the ground, clutching his chest, zoomed in on the dog aggressively barking, and spanned out to show the worker running to get the medication. When the worker had to make the painful decision between shooting the dog or possibly being attacked and unable to give the medication to the boss, the frames included just the characters faces to help convey emotion. The transitions were quick back and forth between the aggressive barking, the desperate elder white man, the gun, and the panicked worker. It created all the more suspension, showing how quick and fleeting this moment was. The character had to make a decision with the dog he loved barking prepared to attack and the man he worked for yelling over him to shoot the dog. The audio only made the decision that the character would make more dreadful for the viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the gunshot sounded and the screen went black, it was an interesting choice by the editors and\/ or the director. It never actually shows the dog being shot and it never actually shows the worker shooting him. The last clip was just his face softening with despair which was extremely powerful and showing the dog actually being shot would have been to gruesome. Even watching the earlier scene with the dog as a young puppy being placed into the bag and then being kicked multiple times was too harsh for the viewer. (It better not have been the real puppy in the bag.) But it was intentional as it built up anger with the character amongst the viewers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each part, each clip was intentional, especially depending on how long they were granted to tell the story. The ending did leave questions to be raised though. Did the worker actually shoot the dog? Or did the boss muster up his last bit of strength to grab the gun and pull the trigger? It was interesting that the reach for the gun was never shown, but it was obvious that like the entire video, it was intended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part Two:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. In Inja the character is introduced alongside the dog through a series of b-roll that follow him making a collar for the dog. Whereas in Bambi, in the small clip we watched, the character is introduced alongside his mother as they roam with wide-shots following them and it shows the very intense actions of their retreat with close ups to show emotion. Both circumstances in the movies were very different for the main characters. In Inja, the boy must keep his ownership of a dog on the down low whereas in Bambi, he and his mother are trying to retreat from cruel hunters.<\/li>
  2. In Inja, the setting is warm South Africa during the apartide there. In Bambi, it takes place in the cold snowy woods. In Inja the characters like the boy are all forced to work or colonizers and so it is very tense although the setting is their own land. Whereas in Bambi the setting is in the vast forest where he in his mother would roam in search of food. Their setting is also disturbed by those who do not share the same value for the land and life. <\/li>
  3. The filmmakers in the short-film, Inja use a variety of different shots to share the story they intended. They effectively use a multitude of close ups to demonstrate intensity and emotion.  However, there was also a style that tied all the different settings and encounters together so it was all coherent. I would describe it as minimalistic in the sense that it got the story of the characters across to you without much narration or dialogue to guide the viewers. In Bambi the camera was positioned to have a much wider shot but when the intense run away from the hunter occurs, the shots are close up on the characters features to show the distress and panic. I would describe the style to this clip as climatic. The style of the clips shows how distraught Bambi is by how fast paced the transitions are and how brief each clip is. <\/li>
  4. One transition between clips in Inja that is very dramatic and has a sense of style to it is the powerful ending which includes multiple cuts of the characters in the pressing situation where the main character has to decide whether he will let his boss struggle or shoot his once beloved dog. The cuts focusing on the barking aggressive dog to the ill boss to the torn man demonstrate how fast the character has to make his decision. Whereas in Bambi a very strong transition between Bambi running from the hunters to finding safety and then realizing his mom did not make it. It goes from scenes of intensity to a blurry sadness and fear of being alone. <\/li>
  5. Some of the visual elements that were really striking in Inja was when the white boss was shown just watching the workers labor. They also used some powerful music to go along with the visuals especially in the beginning as the boy bonds with the dog just to have his companion trained to hate him by the boss. Another very striking moment in Bambi was when Bambi realized his mother was not with him and the snow began to blur around him. The animations and sorrowful music made it impacting. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After watching, Inja twice during Advanced Story Telling and Time Based Media, it was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,42],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a1","category-analysis","tag-fri-11am"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM.png",1024,579,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM-300x170.png",300,170,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM-768x434.png",768,434,true],"large":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM-1024x579.png",900,509,true],"featured_preview":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM-110x110.png",110,110,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM.png",1024,579,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM.png",1024,579,false],"desktop":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM.png",1024,579,false],"grid":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM-550x367.png",550,367,true],"rss-thumb":["https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/nmd106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-27-at-6.19.46-PM-300x170.png",300,170,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

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