Moving Image- 31Savage

0:01 The ad opens up with a middle aged man peaking from behind a hand crafted picture frame. The camera is zoomed in close to his head. The shot is of the picture frame and his eyes to the top of his head. His eyes are directed to his left. He seems to be looking at something or expecting something to be in that direction. His eyes are wide open like he is surprised by something.

0:02-0:03 The camera zooms out to show a wide shot of the man and the frame. The frame happens to have a portrait of  woman looking to her left with a white dress on. The frame of the picture is a wood hand carved gold painted frame. The picture is probably a very old expensive piece with an expensive frame to match. The man is holding the picture, but not in a way that he can hang it on the wall behind him. He seems to be holding it up to show someone what it looks like in that spot. The picture is big, almost the size of the man. The room he is in looks to be a office in his house. There are two windows to his right and left with two chairs approximately 8 feet away from the windows. The chair to the left looks to be a older antique chair, while the other chair is a regular brown chair from around the 80’s or 70’s. The man has on blue jeans and he is not wearing shoes. His socks are black with a grey patch at the toes.

0:04 The camera is a wide but focused shot of the man in the room.The man is now in a room that looks like a living room. He is now inside the couch under the pillows of the couch. He is very noticeable because the pillows are uneven and his body is visible from the cameras position. He is looking out from inside the couch as if he is looking to see if anyone is coming.

0:05 The man tucks his head into the couch as if he doesn’t wan’t to be seen.

0:06 The man in now in a different room standing on a shelf that is at the base of a window. The room looks to be his bed room. He is standing straight up with his back against the wall. His full body is shown in this camera shot. He is dressed casually with a dark blue sweater on with a light blue dress shirt under it. He is still shoe-less in this scene.

0:06-0:07 The man is now in a chair seated hiding under a knitted blanket. He seems to be hiding in fairly obvious spots around the house. The chair is a brown leather single chair. The room he is in seems to be the living room. There is a wall behind him with a book shelf built into it. There are a good amount of books and pictures placed on the shelves. There is a flat screen T.V on the wall at the center of the shelves.

0:08-0:10 The man is now hiding behind a curtain with a view of his upper shoulders. He is looking to his left as if he is expecting something to come from that direction. His facial expression is calm, like he is trying to be as quiet as possible. Again he is choosing the most obvious places to hide.

0:11-0:13 The man is now in the hallway near the front door. He seems to be sneaking through the hallway. The front is open but he is not walking toward the door. He is walking to the room directly across from the room he was just in. He is looking up the steps as if he doesn’t want the person he is hiding from to hear him. His shoes are still off and that might be because he don’t want to be heard sneaking around the house. The hallway is floored with hard wood. He is trying to step very lightly through the hallway.

0:14-0:15 The man is now hiding standing in the chimney with the lower half of his body exposed from the cover of the chimney. There are two gold objects to his right and left. There is a chain to his right that is used to put the cover on the chimney.

0:16 The man is now walking down the steps peeking down the steps into a room behind the steps. His body language indicates that he is looking to see if anyone is down there.

0:17-0:18 The man is now peaking from the door way across from the steps.

0:19 The man is in the laundry room crawling out of a white cabinet under the folding counter. The counter has laundry folded on it. The cabinet is big enough to fit a fully grown person in it.

0:19 The man is now closing himself in the cabinet. It is now obvious that he is hiding from someone or something.

0:20 The man is near a door in the corner of the room looking into the room from behind a plant he is holding. He is very noticeable behind the plant. The plant is green with a lot of long leaves hanging out the pot its in.

0:21-0:23 He is now in what looks to be a child’s room. He is behind a shelf full of stuffed animals looking from a open space in the shelf. The room looks to be a girls room. There are a variety of girl toys in the vision of the camera in the room. The man has a smile of joy on his face as he looks in the room.

0:23-0:25 There is a little girl running in the hallway. She seems to be running after someone.She is wearing pink and purple pajamas with no shoes on.

0:26-0:28 The man is hiding under clothes in a closet. He is looking out into the hallway where the little girl was running. The little girl is probably looking for him. They probably are playing hide and seek. The man is smiling from under the clothes in the closet.

 

5 thoughts on “Moving Image- 31Savage”

  1. 0:01 The ad opens up with a middle aged man peaking from behind a hand crafted picture frame. The camera is zoomed in close to his head. The shot is of the picture frame and his eyes to the top of his head. His eyes are directed to his left. He seems to be looking at something or expecting something to be in that direction. His eyes are wide open like he is surprised by something.

    Nothing you say is untrue, Savage, but neither does it express WHAT IS COMMUNICATED by the images you describe. You are detailing the images but not analyzing them. INTERPRET the intentions of the filmmakers as you describe what we are seeing. Our in-class investigation of the Thai Insurance ad was all about deciding WHY we were being shown the images we were shown. I have offered countless examples of VISUAL ANALYSIS in the Lecture pages:
    https://rowancounterintuitive.com/lectures/revision-group/revision-visual-analysis/
    And: https://rowancounterintuitive.com/lectures/revision-moving-image/
    Review them for in-depth advice.

    0:01 The ad opens up with a middle-aged man peeking from behind a hand-crafted picture frame. The frame fills the bottom half of the screen, while the man’s eyes just clear the frame edge and his forehead and hairline occupy the top of the screen. The effect is immediately comical. The man’s eyes are open so wide as to appear humorous. The effect of his head crowning above the frame is exaggerated and not flattering. His head is rimmed with the peach fuzz of a balding middle-aged man who appears friendly and not vain. He resembles Matt Lauer. The lighting is middle-of-the-day bright, which adds to the lightness of the mood. In other words, he may be hiding behind a picture frame, but he’s not in danger. He might even be posing for a picture, using an exaggerated expression to “mug” for the photographer. At 0:00, he is looking very hard to his right. At 0:01, he shifts his gaze quickly the hard left. The motion, like his expression, is comical and overdone, like a comedian pretending to be wary that he might be spotted. This could be a game, or a sitcom.

    I hope this model clarifies the sort of analysis I’m looking for.
    Coded Grade: E

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