Thursday, 3 May 2012

still frame analysis

In this still frame from the crime-thriller film named Colombiana (2011) which is about a female protagonist, Cataleya Restrepo (played by Zoe Saldana) who her parents were killed in front of her seeks out revenge from her parents killers. In this image, there are many aspects of the image that can be mentioned on.

In this shot, the protagonist, Cataleya is the only person in the shot and even though she is positioned on the left side of the image, she still shows her dominance in the shot and shows she is the main character. The shot used a mid-shot which shows half of her body, and that is effective because the audience are able to see half of her body and we are able to see the gum she is using. Also it always the audience to see the different side of the women which is countertypes the original stereotypical women. We can tell that she isn’t a typical stereotypical woman because of the clothes that she is wearing and the fact that she has a gun in her hand which isn’t normal for a woman to have in her hand.  Plus, the fact that she isn’t screaming as she is holding a gun but by the firing of it you can tell that she is quite but when she needs to she would make a lot of noise.  In addition to that, the serious stiff expression on her face shows the audience that she isn’t there to look pretty but she is there to do her job and get her job done as good as possible. The Lighting is natural and because of that you can see the light of the firing of the gun which allows this to be the focus on what she is doing. Also the fact that the background has no lighting could show how dark she could be or feel about the job that she is doing.

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