Blog Essay #1

Let's Analyze a Frame Shall We

Analysis: Whats in the Frame.

•  Long Shot (could be extreme) , Eye Level ( or maybe eye level 
• Two Boys Walking  down a Street
• They Are Brothers (one older, one younger)
• They are wearing Jackets and Baseball Hats
• The boys are walking down a  dirt road lined with electrical wires and phone lines
• The boys are in the center of the image with their feet cut off at the bottom
• There are plants also lining the  dirt road as well
• The boys are slightly out of focus or it could be the image itself being expanded (that messes with the aspect ratio) 
• The frame is in black and white with a kind of iris around the image. I am unsure if this was 100% intentional or if it was brought about due to lack of lighting. 
• The Aspect Ratio is a wide rectangle 
• It looks like they (the lighting staff)  are shining a spotlight on the two boys 
• The Area around the road is darkened and also all the telephone  and electric lines make the boys look even smaller 
• The boys' backs are to the camera
• The camera must be pretty far away from the boys in question for this image to have been created.

  Writing About The Image Time!
   As I stated before the scene is of the two boys walking home along a dark dirt road in the middle of the night. In the context of the film the two boys are walking home in disgrace after finding out that their father sucks up to the boss of his company and is a huge "Yes-Man". The Boys have just learned that the world is far more complex and bigger than they had originally believed. Even this shot confirms that belief with the two boys walking between these large and imposing telephone and electrical lines. This is the only time in the film we see the world itself be subject to an increase in scale. For a majority of the film, the father of the two Boys is the one who has the luxury of being shown with increased scale (usually from low angle shots). While the boys were never afraid of their father, they knew that he was in charge.

The way the shot is composed itself draws attention to the boys as well  by using depth of field or whatever that painting trick developed during the renaissance to create an illusion of depth was called.  This is almost the same type of cinematography used to create "riding off into the sunset" like images.  However, the boys are wandering into the vast unknown darkness. While there is light on them now, that light signifies how singled out they feel. By having their dad be revealed to be a weak yes man, they themselves feel a drop in social status. "If our Dad is this much of a push over, what does that make us?" must be going through there minds.