Blog # 3
For this post, I had to focus on a scene from a film, and so I decided to focus on a favorite of mine, the binary sunset scene from Star Wars: A New Hope (1977). The scene opens with a wide shot, where you see the sunset on the horizon, and then see the protagonist, Luke, come out of his home. We only see his back, as he walks ahead towards the horizon. This shot stays put throughout this action, as a form of establishing the surroundings. Then it cuts to a medium shot of Luke, who has come to a halt and is looking ahead. The camera seems to be in a bit of a low angle, and once again stays fixed in place. Then it cuts to a close-up but can very much be an extreme close-up, since the shot frames the two suns in the sky very tightly. Clearly, it is a point of view shot as well, as the camera lingers on the sunset. This POV shot is telling the audience what Luke is focusing on, as it switches back to a medium shot of Luke, still staring at the suns. Ho...