The clip begins with a dolly shot showing all the adults working alongside each other. With no children in sight, the dolly shot moves across the scene showing the adults talking and helping each other out and you get the perspective that is stereotypical of adults, which is that adults prefer adult company. The next scene opens with a pan shot moving to the left and gives an over the shoulder view of a young girl. you can tell her character is young by her choice of clothing and the pan shot enables you to see that because it it moves out of the way of another character, hence the over the shoulder view. The reason this is important is because these shots have been specifically chosen to show you her clothing, even the shot size allows this as it is a medium long shot and gives you a full view of the clothes she is wearing.
The next scene opens with a dolly shot of the girl in the car and gives a close up of her face to show her confused state. It implies that she does not know how to drive and the close up is there to show her naivety and how young she really is. If she was older she may have known how to drive or even a little more about starting a car. The close up signifies the fact that she has know clue about how to drive and this shows how this camera shot can be used to represent age.
Once the car has been started and the girl begins to drive, the girl crashes and the scene switches to a wide shot to show you the extent of the crash, it was a head on crash and shows that one car was on the wrong side of the ride, and it can be judged that the girls inexperience led her to be on the wrong side of the road.
Then there is a medium long shot showing the after scene of the crash where there is a confrontation between young and old. Allows you to see the headmasters dress sense and it is clear that he is and elderly gentle man, and that is one of the reasons why the director has used this shot, so that the audience can get a perspective of age.
The next shot is where the boy and man arrive on scene to see what has happened. the camera first focuses on the boy and pan/tilts up to the man. the reason you can tell one is a boy and one is the man is generally due to the height difference, it shows the taller man to be more authoritative because it is a low angle shot of him whereas the boy is shown at eye line level. the camera then does the opposite and pan/tilts back to the boy to emphasize the height and age difference. Then the camera shows a two shot of the young girl, with an older woman who is hugging her. The reason for the two shot is to show the protective nature that the woman has over the girl, almost like a motherly instinct. it shows the girls vulnerability and how fragile she is as she is deeply emotional and needs to feel protected.
The viewers perspective is then changed as scene after scene is shown from a low angle, which is meant to represent that of the view of the young girl. It is almost as if you are seeing things from her point of view and this makes you see things in her shoes and lets you sympathize her. it gives of the representation of age by allowing you see she is smaller (younger) then other characters.
An extreme long shot is shown to establish that we are now back at the house. The next scene shows the girls bedroom, where the camera tilts down to reveal a note, one left by the girl. The camera then pans to the right to show the audience the girls teddy bear. The bear alone is used to show her age but it is the camera's movement which purposely shows the bear for the audience to get this point of view. And then there is a final tilt to reveal the girl in the corner of the room where she is vulnerable. The camera then zooms in and shows one of the girls photos that is attached to her mirror, of her and her 'family'. it shows how much she relies upon them and looks up to them as role models, implying young age on her and an older age on those within her 'family'. The zoom also reveals her emotions at this time and allows you to see her emotional state at this time.
Then the camera shows the view of the room from outside, peering through the window at the girl. this camera angle is used to manipulate the audience into feeling sorry for her. when the older woman walks in after the girl has gone she finds the note and this is all captured from outside of the window still. the camera moves to a close up view to see the worry that appears on the woman's face and allows you to see her motherly instinct taking over, giving a good representation that she is generally an older woman.
The next scene shows the woman approaching the lead male and the scene is shot at a high angle view to represent his eyeline view. it leads to a close up on the lady to see the true worried emotion on her face. the reason a high angle shot is used is because there is stigma about how there are 'little old ladies' and there are big tall mean. This means that because we are seeing things from his point of view, a high angle shot is used to show the 'little old lady' and therefore implying age.
Once the lead male realizes the girl has run away you see a close up shot f his face and how his fatherly emotions kick in, showing he is an older man, the same effect would not happen if a close up was not used and therefore it is shown that the camera angles used ae specifically chosen to imply age for each character.
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