Chapter 3: movement

During many of the scences the camera is kept up close to the action to emphasize movement. There are of coarse high angles and panning shots, and long shots. Which all good movies should have to give a variety of emphasize on different scenes. For example the beginnging shot is a long shot showing an entire city with the buildings, the city streets, the moving cars and crowded streets. This shows the movement of city life and gives a sense of the busy lifestyle attributed to a large city and the movement as a whole. It also sets up the movie right of the bat to show where the movie will be taking place and in turn it sets up the rest of the so you have a general understading of time and place. So camera angles and movement can tell a lot about a film. The movie scenes are very naturalistic, they tend to show realistic movements of walking, falling, all the regular movements a human would make are typically shown this way. The majority of the shots are filmed lyrically with naturalistic patterns but as a hiest movie goes, it does tend to be a chaotic film so parts where there is intended confusion or high areas of stress it is depicted in such a way.