The+Adventures+of+Tin+Tin

=//**The Adventures of Tin Tin**// - Directed by Steven Spielberg=

1) Close Up In this shot, the director uses little light coming from the bottom-right to convey a sense of mood for the scene: horror; however, this scene is very ironic, purposely designed by the director. What the light reveals is not a menacing face of a thug, but rather an innocent face of a rich family's butler, contrary to what was perceived only seconds before this moment. The emotional state portrayed in this shot is of disappointment, because the butler was disappointed to see that there was a burglar in the house.

2) Worm's Eye View In this carefully designed shot made by the director, you see Tin Tin on the ground, enclosed by two pairs of legs on either side of him. This give the viewer the feeling that Tin Tin is in now position of power, and to exaggerate that more, the director places the viewer even lower than Tin Tin so that the viewer will have a strong sense of defeat in this scene.

3) Bird's Eye View In this shot, the Bird's Eye View camera tilt is used to establish to the viewer what this scene is about. As you can see, the director chose to use lights from above to show that the scene is meant to be calm, and the characters in this scene have no emotional conflict.

4) Canted Shot In this moment of the film, the two characters in the shot are arguing/debating over a subject of the film. It is in this particular moment that the character on the right (the antagonist) says something that is very out of place, affecting the the character on the left (the protagonist Tin Tin). Canted shots are supposed to give you that "strange" dizzy feeling get in real life, allowing the viewer to have the sense that "something is not right".

5) Long Shot This shot puts the main characters in the foreground, isolating them from the supporting character at the back. They are filmed with each of their whole body in the frame. This puts the emphasis on the characters. This shows as if it were a theater production. In a theater production, when characters speak, they tend to move towards the front of the stage. For this scene, the shot shows the view the setting of the scene, another establishing shot.

6) American Shot This shot is towards the left of the previous Long Shot. You can clearly see that the subject of the scene is changed from the antagonist to the butler supporting character. The scene only shows the characters from ankle up, generating a different feeling from the previous Long Shot An interesting element of this shot is that there are beams of light coming form behind the butler. The blue beams of light on the left of the frame is in contrast the the dark red color on the right of the frame. This was done to distinguish the moral alignment of the two characters on the edges of the frame.

7) Extreme Close Up This is an extreme closeup of a particular item in the film. This shooting technique is used to let the viewer know that the item is significant to the plot will relate to what ever will happen next in the film. This is a foreshadowing technique.

8) Medium Shot At the end of the scene, the director decides to use a Medium Shot/Close Up (Medium of the butler, close up of Tin Tin). The director uses a high contrast top lighting on the butler to show the audience that the butler is actually a character of a good alignment, helping the protagonist, with a dark side because of his affiliation with the antagonist. The close up Tin Tin is used as a transition to the next scene as soon as Tin Tin turns around and leave the Mansion.

// Terrific! And good job at going past what we've already discussed in lighting. High contrast? You're ahead of the game! //