Blog 3 - Relationship Between Shots

Blog #3


The film scene I picked was a scene from the office. Everyone is in the conference room, and everyone is talking to each other. The camera makes quick city's to each other, showing their reaction to something said or to comment. The connected shots of every character, creates a fluid conversation on screen. The shaking of the camera also makes you feel like you are in the room with them, with the conversation bouncing around you.

Most of the shots try to include everyone's faces, in order to capture multiple reactions. This allows us as the viewer to watch a group of people react, instead of a close up on one. There are also a lot of jump cuts to the quick comments made in The Office, which make it so funny. There are no point of view shots, as the camera is never a character in the office, but the closest to that is the characters look at the camera.

The first shot is of Toby, then quickly to the rest of the room, then back to Toby. Then it cuts to a medium shot of Michael in his office talking. That leads to a montage of cuts, showing Toby place the ant poison around the Office and Michael then throwing away the ant poison. After the montage, it cuts back to the conference room, picking up from where the first shots left off. This shot that re-enters the conference room shows continuity, as we have missed nothing in the conference room during the montage cutaway. After that it focuses on Michael, who has stood up at this point. As he makes a joke, the camera cuts to the rest of the room to experience the reaction to the joke. It then cuts back to Michael. The rest of the scene, as mentioned above, bounces off each character at a rapid pace. There are a lot of reaction shots to things said, so the camera is really moving around, more than what I have noticed in the past.

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