Sunday, November 15, 2015



This scene is a triangle. The camera bounces between each of the three corners of the room creating an intensity that wouldn't be there otherwise. There is a character in each of the three corners reacting differently to the situation. The first cut in the scene is a reaction shot. Lisa (Angelina Jolie) enters and slams the door. As the door closes shut we hear the slam and then it immediately cuts to Susana (Wynonna Ryder) who is across the room and her reaction to the door slamming. It's seemingly perfect an un-noticeable. Directly after we see Susanna's reaction we see Georgina (Clea DuVall) in the third part of the room who is the bystander in a confrontation that involves Susana and Lisa. As Georgina is speaking it cuts to a close-up to a chair which Lisa uses to block the door. The camera then pans up to Lisa's face revealing her emotion. Then we see a wide shot of Susana, she backs into a corner as Lisa walks towards her. We can hear faint footsteps from Lisa and loud banging is the sound in front. Once Susanna is trapped the scene cuts to Lisa as she screams at Susanna then quickly to Susanna to capture her reaction. Once there is screaming and banging taking place in the scene the camera cuts to Georgina so that we can see her reaction to all that is happening giving us a third party's perspective. The scene then cuts to a close up of the chair blocking the door as its being rattled. The door bursts open at the peak of the noise level (the height of the screaming in collaboration with the banging). It is simultaneously cut to a wide shot of Valerie (Whoopi Goldberg) busting into the door. Another cut that is seamless. The wide shot becomes a medium (more obvious) low angle shot as she walk closer to the camera and freezes asserting her dominance. Two quick cuts follow, both close-ups, one to Susanna and then to Lisa to get their reactions. The camera stays on Lisa, no-one is moving and the scene that once had a lot of stuff going on at once is now focused this one character's emotions. It cuts to  and then back to the close-up of Lisa. Once the moment is gone and the scuffling begins it its to a wide shot of the aid grabbing her and then Georgina's reaction to everything that has taken place and then back to Susana.

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