This document analyzes cinematography techniques used in the film "The Descent." It describes several shots from the film clips: a wide rack focus shot introduces a character waking up blurred and gaining focus; a mid shot focuses on the character waking up in a hospital bed; and a wide steady cam shot makes the character feel lonely while running from darkness. It also discusses a trombone shot expressing the character's fading expression as darkness approaches, and a 360 degree shot showing comfort while the world continues around the characters.
2. Clip 3
This is the first scene of the clip it starts
of as a wide shot and starts of blurred
revealing someone that has just woke up
and slowly gains focus. The camera used
for this is a rack cam as it slowly moves
closer and closer without the camera
shaking as it is a smooth move forward.
3. Clip 3
Mid Shot- in this image a static shot is used to show that the
image is focused on Sarah suddenly waking up on the hospital
bed.
4. Steady wide cam – they use a wide shot
to make Sarah feel lonely this also shows
that she is running from the darkness.
Wide stedicam – its point of view of
something chasing Sarah in the dark.
Trombone shot – this shot is
used as an affect to show the
expression on Sarah's as the
fading background as she can
see the darkness coming as if
its trying to take her in to the
dark.
5. This is a scene showing one character comforting the other it also goes
around the 360 degrees angle to show that every thing else is still going on
around them normally.
6. This scene shows someone crying for what her friend is going threw this
shows emotion and gives the audience an idea of how they re all feeling.
