This is a scene from Fifty First dates. Lucy Whitmore which is the girl in this scene and the man who is Marlin Whitmore is the father of this girl. In this scene you get to see what happened in the girls car crash that made her loose her memory, this is why she repeats the same thing everyday because she forgot her memory. This relates to the film we are creating because the man in our film has an car crash and loose his memory also. So i thought this would be good to look at and see what ideas we can get from this, it will be good to see what camera angles and shots are used in this so we know what would be the best for our film.
Because when this scene is happening, it is the past so we are seeing it as someone is telling it.
At the start where Marlin looks at Lucy it is silent, they are looking at each other and smiling, showing that they are happy and everything is ok. The third shot you can see above is of Marlin extreme close up on his eyes, we can see that something bad is about to happen because of the shock we see in his eyes and terror. The next shot we see is of a cow. This shot is very quick, 1-2 seconds of seeing this image, from his eyes then straight to this and then straight to the next shot, this shot is a point of view shot. We see what Marlin would be seeing while driving the car, this will put the audience is terror because there is cow in front of his car which he will drive into. Then next shot we see is off Marlin's foot on the foot brake, this shot is very quick, you only see this for 1-2 seconds. Also with this shot we heard skidding to start from the car wheels, which shows the audience that the car is about skid and makes tension happen, makes the audience think what is going to happen next. The next shot you see is Marlin stirring the wheel really fast, as if he as lost control which he is because of the cow in the road. You can see the shock and how scared his by the emotions used. This shot is a median shot view looking at him outside of the car, this shot is good because you can see the character from another point of view, this would be seen as the cows point of view. The next shot is also a quick shot of Lucy looking very gobsmacked with her mouth open, looking surprised as what is about to happen, this shot is at the side would be where her dad would be sitting. This shot was very quick as so were the ones before, this scene happened very quickly because of the car accident you only saw the quick movements that happened. The shot after that is off he wheel skidding on the floor, you hear this as it happens, this is now starting to build up the tension in the scene. The shot of this is a low shot know as the worms eye view, this looks up to the wheel at the side skidding, this is a good shot because it makes it seem like the wheel is very over powering about what is happening. Then the next shot is where you see the car crashed into a tree, this is a long distance shot so you can see the whole scene and what else is going on, you can see that the car has been smashed and see that the cow is okay and didn't get hit which makes the viewers feel relieved. The scene happened very quick and most of the shots are close up, so you can see every little detail that was going on, there wasn't really any sound because we was watching this from the past as someone was explaining it. I have got ideas from looking at this scene and will use some of the shots used.
