Film, space, and image

This chapter is all about film and the choices that directors make to film their movies. These film techniques shape the way that an audience perceives the movie. Directors often pride themselves on the choices that they make to film their movies. In relation to the camera, there is a lot of different ways to have shoot film. You can have close ups, extreme close ups, high angle shots, low angle shots, long takes and a lot more. The next directorial choice is sequences in the shots and how they are pieced together. There are montages, elliptical linear and linear sequences and associative sequences. Next there are cuts of shots and transitions on these cuts. Each of these allow directors to have their own personal flair and creativity in their craft and every director makes different choices in relation to this.

For my example I thought about the movie Creed. No one would really think that this movie features directing genius but there are many shots that have a lot of creativity in them. This is the final fight in the movie Creed, featuring the now dead Apollo Creed’s son, Adonis Creed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4OqB35WpHo

When watching this scene there are a few big angles that are important to the way that this movie is shot. When the two boxers are trading blows, the camera is over the shoulder of the boxers and then switches to the view from the audience to make the people watching feel more engaged. Then there is a sequence with lots of quick cuts and closeups on the boxing equipment allowing the boxers to keep going even after they are bloody and beat up and closeups on the blood to show how gruesome this sport is. And whenever someone gets knocked down or they’re being talked to by their coach, there is a closeup on their face to show the emotion or confusion. Also many of these scenes are quick cuts because the choreography is hard to map out. All of these directorial choices are very important to the emotion and finale of this movie.