Blog #5- Story board

 

I have always really liked the way this scene flows. A lot of the camera movement is fluid. They don’t cut to different frames, the camera moves around the scene. In the beginning when the car is pulling into the parking lot of the pool hall it follows the car that Randal, Mitch, and David are in. When it cuts to the next scene the director used the 30 rule. He used this by being 30% or more closer to the actors when David flings open the door. As the actors begin to walk in the camera slowly zooms out slightly and then goes backward in front of the characters as they make their way through the hall. It then cuts to another frame of an establishing shot of the room showing people hanging out and playing pool and foosball. It uses the rule of 30 again here by rotating the camera 30 degrees. Then the scene cuts to inside of the foosball table while people are playing. This again uses the 30 rule by being more  than 30% closer than the last frame. This one is really close up to the ball and the actions because it is literally inside the table. In the last frame the rule of 30 is used again when it zooms back out to show the people surrounding the table that was just zoomed in on. I could not really find an example of the 180 degree rule in this clip. I think this is because there was no direct dialog between two characters that was shown close up. The rule of thirds is used in just about every frame. Most of the important objects and characters line up with the lines when the frame is divided by the rule of thirds. I don’t think that the rules were really broken in this scene. The only one I couldn’t find was the 180 degree rule, and as I said there was no dialog that was applicable to this rule. Other than that the director followed the rules. I really like this scene and the way it was directed. I particularly enjoy the way the characters move in relation to the camera and the music.