Wednesday 13 October 2010

The Birds Analysis

How many shots are there?
There are 18 shots.


 What principles of continuity are used here? How successfully?
At the start of the scene, she is walking towards the door of the house. the camera is at long shot and then goes to medium shot of the porch. The these two shots were taken so it looks like one shot, the match-on-action occurs on shot 3 and 4. So the first the 4 shots look like 1 shot. The match on action is principle of continuity and it is very effective. The principles are are carried out successfully, i know this because when watching the scene i never felt like the shots were not edited properly.  


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