Titanic Analysis
Artur Karapetyan
Discuss how the interaction of 2 micro features affects your personal response to your chosen sequence.
I will be analysing the interaction of camerawork and sound.
We can first see Jack standing and observing the situation. The sound is diegetic - we can clearly hear the classical song in the background which creates a “royal” feeling. The camera captures both Jack and what he sees in a long shot. Camera cuts to and from Jack to show his reaction to people and how he tries to act like them.
As Rose’s fiancé walks down the stairs holding his mother he sort of ignores Jack’s attempt to have a handshake. In this particular shot we can see exactly what Jack sees and that makes viewers a bit uncomfortable at first.
After Rose appears on the stairs we first see a medium shot of her trying to find Jack with her eyes. After she finds him, she smiles and we instantly see what she is seeing - Jack practicing his handshake with no one. The shot is fairly long to make sure viewers can see that there is no one near him and that the situation is indeed fairly funny. This is all happening while the classical music is playing in the background and while all the people around
Artur Karapetyan are talking and greeting each other.
When they see each other a lot of close ups are starting to appear of both Jack and Rose which indicates the importance of these two characters and their interaction. Jack greets her in a very formal way by kissing her hand & tells her straight away that he always wanted to do that and that he has seen it on tv. The camera starts following them - it feels like it started being handheld but with very smooth movement. That is particularly effective when you want to achieve a very natural look of the situation. Sound just makes the whole naturalism even stronger when it is being mixed with such camera work.
After that we get a fade transition to the next shot which sometimes indicates ellipsis in the movie. In this case while you can
Discuss how the interaction of 2 micro features affects your personal response to your chosen sequence.
I will be analysing the interaction of camerawork and sound.
We can first see Jack standing and observing the situation. The sound is diegetic - we can clearly hear the classical song in the background which creates a “royal” feeling. The camera captures both Jack and what he sees in a long shot. Camera cuts to and from Jack to show his reaction to people and how he tries to act like them.
As Rose’s fiancé walks down the stairs holding his mother he sort of ignores Jack’s attempt to have a handshake. In this particular shot we can see exactly what Jack sees and that makes viewers a bit uncomfortable at first.
After Rose appears on the stairs we first see a medium shot of her trying to find Jack with her eyes. After she finds him, she smiles and we instantly see what she is seeing - Jack practicing his handshake with no one. The shot is fairly long to make sure viewers can see that there is no one near him and that the situation is indeed fairly funny. This is all happening while the classical music is playing in the background and while all the people around
Artur Karapetyan are talking and greeting each other.
When they see each other a lot of close ups are starting to appear of both Jack and Rose which indicates the importance of these two characters and their interaction. Jack greets her in a very formal way by kissing her hand & tells her straight away that he always wanted to do that and that he has seen it on tv. The camera starts following them - it feels like it started being handheld but with very smooth movement. That is particularly effective when you want to achieve a very natural look of the situation. Sound just makes the whole naturalism even stronger when it is being mixed with such camera work.
After that we get a fade transition to the next shot which sometimes indicates ellipsis in the movie. In this case while you can