The Shawshank Redemption
Red and Andy at Zihuatanejo
I’ll be giving you first a brief information about this film The Shawshank Redemption so that we’ll be in the same wavelength and you can easily get my point once I analyze this.
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins as ‘Andy Dufresne’ and Morgan Freeman as ‘Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding.
Adapted from the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the film tells the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who spends 19 years in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover despite his claims of innocence. During his time at the prison, he befriends a fellow inmate, Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding, and finds himself protected by the guards after the warden begins using him in his money laundering operation.
All right then! Here are my analyses.
1. In this scene, as you can see above where Red and Andy are at Zihuatanego peacefully, the Dominant is the clear blue ocean as it is being in extreme long shot which stands out, the color blue of ocean is darker than the sky that makes its focus of its frame agreeing with the soft lighting to describe harmony and freedom.
2. As for Lighting Key, it uses Low key lighting because the light is being diffused evenly and the light being used is natural. As I said awhile, the soft light states how free Andy and Red.
3. For Shot and Camera Angle, well, this is extreme long shot as you can see for it occupies very wide range of the scene while the two characters are just mere specks.
4. Camera Angle there is in Bird’s eye view because you are as if the bird looking at Andy and Red. This camera angle is basically used to give importance to the surrounding rather than the characters involved.
5. As far as I know the Color Values would be dominating. I think it really is because the ocean and sky are combining its color intensity that makes the whole scene so calm in accordance with the feelings of two characters about to see each other again.
6. I’m not aficionado on this matter though which is ‘Lens/Filter/Stock‘, but as Wide-angle lens defined it, lens taken in broad area that increases the illusion of depth, I agree then. It is seen there. The image is quite distorted in some ways and even the edges.
7. Next is Subsidiary Contrast. Although Andy and Red are as just mere specks there, they are still the next thing, audience like me, can notice after being sunk into the clear ocean. Aside from them, there is this boat where Andy is fixing, its color is in light brownish though but still noticeable for it is one of bigger things in the scene next to ocean, sky and sand.
8. Density? We’ve got for things in the scene: ocean, sky, sand and boat that are easily noticeable while Andy and Red are hardly noticeable because of extreme long shot used. Basically, the scene states widely explicitly what really is happening: it’s a new beginning for the Andy and Red. Nature says it all.
9. The Composition is wholly horizontal with just a little touch of binary as I see it. It’s because there’s parallelism in ocean, sky and sand.
10. Framing for this scene is loose and tend. Well, there’s not much explanation about it because Andy and Red have the whole frame to move freely as mush as they want. Nothing can impediment them to move.
11. I think for the Depth of field, the focus is in the background or it may be in the whole picture. I’m saying that it’s isolating the two characters in the scene to emphasis its message to the audience.
12. Although Andy and Red are the main characters here, in this scene it’s justifiable why they are being put into bottom right edge of the frame because they are not really that important in the scene. In this Character Placement, characters are not focused of this scene.
13. I’d take Andy for he really is the main character in this film. Its Staging Positions, is in back to camera, I’m taking Andy’s position here. Reasonably, it’s because Andy wants isolation from the world he had lived in. Also he wants to forget his dreadful past that’s why he’s not looking anymore on the camera focus.
14. Character Proxemics here is in personal distances. As it is explained as reserved for friend of acquaintance. Andy and Red are in just several feet away to each other.
This is it! This is so far I can do to analyze this scene from the film The Shawsank Redemption. Feel free to criticize it, it’d be of great help to me if you find mistakes rather that good points. Thanks!
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