X File "Kill Switch" Analyzing Editing

In this post I will be analyzing some editing form the series X File season 5 episode 11. It is a good episode. 

I am going to start with the dinner scene. For me this whole scene has different kinds of editing, we have a master shot, continuity, the 80 degree rule, etc. But for me shot were the US Marshalls enter the dinner is an ellipsis. Because in this shot were we see the shooting inside the dinner but we do not see what is really happening is separate by time from the shot were we see later on when they are checking all the dead bodies.  We did not see what happened but just assumed they are all dead, because that is the purpose of the shot.  

In this two shot we can see that is an example of a Reverse shot. We have two shots from each character point of view (behind them) while they are having a conversation.The camera switches between the characters so that we can see their response.  

Although this two image are from different place, the first is were “Invisigoth” lives and the second is from the trailer were Mulder gets trap they have something in common. The length of the rhythm in this shot is a little longer than other scene, giving us time to analyze the importance of what we are seeing.

Cinematography Tron 1982

In this analysis I will be analyzing some shots from the movie Tron from 1982. I decide to take different shots of the movie and analyze them individually from camera angle, different kinds of shot and lighting.

In this shot we can see an example of a low angle camera view, because the camera is lower than the character creating the illusion of power.  He is the bad guy so they want to give him a threatening image. In my opinion the light is low key, because we have kind of a dark background and the light emphasizes Sark. 

Extreme Long Shot, were the subject or character is from a large distance almost to small to recognize. Even though we do not see the motorcycle we can recognize the characters from the colors of the line. In this shot we can see a lot of background In my opinion the purpose of this long shot, is so we can see how near the are getting to the end were one of them could die.

When the shoot  include two characters is called two-shot. This is an example of a close up because we can see the characters from their shoulders upward and the purpose of the shot is their face and emotions. But I will say is a medium close up because we can see two character and the two of them have the same amount of importance. Color is very important in the movie and in this shot we can see how the difference in color have a meaning, good vs evil.

I decide it to include this shot because for me a back shot has a lot of meaning. It create tension because we know what hi is doing, but we do not know what is going to happened being him. In this part is were hi is taken inside the program which we were not expecting. In this shot the light come from every direction.

In my opinion this image represent a Birds eye view, because we can see Sark from top to bottom.

"Robocop" Mise-en-Scene

I will be analyzing every detail of this scene from the movie Robocop 1987. I decide to take this scene because for me represents the whole point of the movie. Let’s start by using the Rule of Third, if we divide the scene in three columns and three rows, we can see that what occupied the whole scene is the robot. The bottom of the robot occupied all the right side and his shadow is divided between the left side and the center of the scene which make pretty clear that the main character is the robot.  Now from the camera point of view we have the robot and his shadow that make him look bigger than how he actually is and the background people more smaller. This make him look powerful and threatening over the citizens. But let’s not forget he is threatening only for the bad people. If we watch the whole scene we can see his purpose in that city. For me this scene represent everything, we have the sign in an abandoned alley which say “Delta City, The future has a silver lining” with a futuristic city. Which could mean the city is experimenting with technology to have control of everything. The big robot represent advance in technology and power to make things right in the city and defend the innocent over the criminals that are attacking the women.I think the lighting is really great because emphasizes what is important in that scene the robot, the people and the sign.Even though there is a little action in the background what take our attention is how they make the robot look like the most big and powerful invention.