Archive from April, 2013
Apr 18, 2013 - Communication    2 Comments

Scene analysis

In this scene in hotel Rwanda it builds up a lot of suspense

The mist : the mist creates a lot of mystery because 1 you cannot see were you are going and 2 it hides what lurks beneath the mist and it is quite disturbing also by covering up what is beneath the mist until Paul sees what it is, it makes it more dramatic and shocking at the same time

When Paul falls out of the car the camera for a second stay still by doing this it looks like Paul tripped deliberately and when you go to the next shot he is on the floor looking at something which we don’t know until the camera switches around to see a young boy killed by a machete ( the reason we know this is because when the camera switches around the sound of a machete cutting threw the air is input into the film giving us a better understanding of how the boy got to were he is now

The director uses quite a lot of camera angles in this 90 seconds but with doing this it just makes this a well thought out scene, in the car you can see over the shoulder which is like you a actual passenger in the back seat also you can see what they see ( almost right because you can hardly see anything ) giving us a better view of what they are doing
The the car stops the camera s fixed on a mid shot of Paul coming out of the car, then suddenly he falls other but the camera stay giving us the feeling the it was accidental

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