have chosen too analyse the camera techniques for a two minute scene from scrubs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsrnT7Tv1o
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•The clip starts with a long shot of the main character walking through the hospital. The camera then pans to the left following him as he runs into a hospital ward. You then get an OVS shot (over the shoulder shot) of him looking at someone lying in a bed.
•The camera then faces him showing his look of shock, the camera slowly zooms in on his face turning into close-up shot.
•About 3 or 4 seconds later you get an establishing shot of the man lying in the bed with all the nurses doing surgery on him, this to me looks like a POV shot( point of view shot)
•After this you get a fade down shot of the man lying in the bed and slowly a fade in shot comes back showing a women dressed in a red dress next the bed where the man is no longer lying, this gives me an impression that the man is having some kind of dream.
•The rest of the clip is very easy to explain as it becomes very repetitive. The camera is a medium shot of the woman, who has now started singing. The camera goes back to the man panning in on his face give a close up shot. The woman starts walking out of the sight of the camera and as she does this the camera fades out. The next shot is an establishing shot of the man looking in the direction of something off camera, the woman then walks in to shot , this is a two shot/ medium long shot. She continues walking past the camera and as she is about walk out of the camera shot the camera does a fade out shot. I found these first 30-45 seconds of the video clip very interesting and full of camera techniques, the fade out shots in particular helped to give the viewer the impression that the man was dreaming.
•One last thing I must mention is use of light, when the woman with red dress first appeared the lights were all dimmed giving the effect that the man was dreaming or having a fantasy.
