Film Scene Analysis
For this assignment I analyzed a film scene from the movie Interstellar. The scene I chose was the scene when the characters land on Miller’s planet. The scene begins with the cameras cutting from each character to the next, and the cameras move naturally in the very beginning even shaking a little, so it seems as if it is cutting back and forth between each character looking at each other speaking in a way. When Anne Hathaway exits the spaceship, the camera switches to a very stable long shot, and the colors seem tinted grey scale. I think this was to emphasize the vastness and stillness of the environment they are in, which is an enormous ocean which seems to cover the entire planet. The camera cuts momentarily between showing Anne Hathaway’s face and then her point of view of the surrounding scenery which seem to be mountains in the distance. Throughout this entire clip actually I noticed that a common theme was to show something and then bounce to the characters to see th...