BSA 206 W9 : One on Ones

Today we had some one-on-ones with Traci discussing where we intend to go for our research and presentation.

I am going with M. Night Shyamalan as my choice of director, the main thing that I took away from my meeting is that my original intentions for this project were far too large and overblown. We are breaking down a single scene and experimenting with just that, because of this I have scaled back and decided to shift my focus.

I will no longer tell the story I had in mind originally for this paper, instead I will take one scene from his catalogue and play around with that. The scenes that I am gravitating towards are the long shots slowly panning or dollying while revealing new information that are quite often present in his films. There are two distinct examples from Unbreakable that I could use for this - The Train scene at the beginning and the opening pregnancy scene.



Opening pregnancy scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E69-oJ7TDc

It was hard to find a clip showing the train scene I mentioned, this other clip from the film in a hospital is also just a one shot and is quite well done showing where the character's attention lies, it doesn't have the panning or dollying motion though which is something I want to incorporate: