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Film Analysis Challenge: analyze a scene based on its technical composition (framing, camera shot [close-up, pan, shot sequence] lighting, mise-en-scene, costume, music, sound, etc.). Here's a great resource for terminology.
What makes certain scenes so emotionally resonant? Meaningful? Powerful? How is this expressed through the film medium?
I'm almost leaving this as a challenge to myself as I've been wanting to analyze Buffyverse scenes on this basis for a while (e.g., OMWF, the final scene in Beneath You in the church). ICON CHOSEN FOR FRAMING, USE OF PROP, MISE-EN-SCENE, NATURAL LIGHTING.
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Film Analysis of Beneath You: Between the Shadow and the Soul
Lighting: The scene sets the characters shrouded in darkness, yet they're well lit. This high contrast between the almost glowing figures of Spike and Buffy is established through high key lighting, where the windows on the sides of the church serve as pseudo-diegetic sources for light. No matter where Buffy and Spike stand throughout the scene, they seem to fall into the light. Save one exception: when Spike willfully crawls into the shadows to confess his darker passions, of death and sex ("I dreamed of killing you, I think they were dreams"/"Thinking of you and spilling useless buckets of salt"). When Spike finally confesses outright that he has a soul, upon saying the word "spark" after hinting at how he's like Angel, he finally walks back into the light. The scene juxtaposes light and dark at its most extreme, the contrast between the demonic and the soul.
Color: Consider the lack of warm color in the scene, as it's primarily blue-toned, save ( ... )
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Costume is one of the aspects of the show that I think gets overlooked a lot in terms of design/visuals. It's interesting how frequently Buffy and Spike's costumes are color-matched in key moments in S6 (I haven't done an analysis of it by any means, alas): both wearing red and black in the final scenes of OMWF; both wearing blue and black (leather and cloth) in Smashed; and I think that applies here as well. Buffy's camisole is much likes ones she wore in earlier seasons, up to early S6 (All the Way) before her sexual liason with Spike and the loss of friendship and trust between them. Her covered-up, conservative clothes seems to be a way of "hiding" her body, her shame, as well as the truth of her relationship with Spike; whereas her top in BY, especially in the church scene, seems almost defiant: she's reclaiming her own body, to decorate and display as she pleases, not the possession of anyone else. Her ( ... )
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I really wanna answer this one!! I might be back :)
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An Unplayed Piano: The Hour, Lix Storm and Randall Brown in Episode 2.04
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