Blog Post 3: Analysis of Film: Relationships between Shots

I came across this student film called Suitcase that I found to be interesting. It’s about people walking around transferring a suitcase all the way up to its destination with a somewhat big payoff at the end. What I really found interesting was how the video was made and what kind of techniques he used to make his peace. There is no dialogue and it doesn’t seem like there are any people-focused shots. As in his characters are not always the focus of the frame. It’s like he was creating a moving background video where his character was moving urgently and the background was always moving. I thought it was interesting how he stuck to the rule of thirds with his character following the exact lines necessary for it: his first and second character remained on the left with the background taking up most of the right space, and his final character remained on the right with the background taking up most of the left space.  He had a lot of wide shots and there was this perfect wide shot frame of the suitcase being transferred and birds flying across at 0:57 that I thought was so cool. He had a close up of his last character but we never saw anything from the character’s point of view it was always from what the viewer saw. He used small aperture because the entire video was shot as a deep focus since everything was in focus and the shots were clearly and the warm colors were accentuated nicely on a sunny day. It was a really cool student 1 take that seemed simple on paper but when you really think about it every detail mattered.