The film extract which I have chosen I think shows you a good example of Directing, is from the film "Atonement". The sequence in this film which I have chosen is the 5 minute long camera shot of Dunkirk, where you see the camera panning around the beech, showing the soldiers, waiting for boats to take them of the beech. The main characters do appear in this shot but they are not the main attraction.
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The reason why I believe that this clip is a good example of directing is because, it is quite a challenge to do a 5 minute camera shot without any cuts, without getting something wrong, especially as they have hundreds of people to look after making sure that they know exactly what they are doing at any given time. Also when they want to so a retake, they have to set up hundreds of people back to the start of the shot, which would have taken, over an hour to do with the scale of the shot, in fact they did four re shoots in one whole day. It is has good directing, because without it the scene would have looked a shambles and would have not have brought such a great impact to the film.Labels: Atonement, Director, Joe Wright, Tim |
