Moving Image-lmj20

0:01-0:04: A gray car is in the middle of the screen and serves as the focal point of the shot. This could mean that the car is the main idea of the ad. To the right, walking towards the car, is a man and a woman. We can assume that the car belongs to the man. They have their arms around each other indicating intimacy. They may be a preexisting couple or they have just met in the building behind them that they are coming from. There is a line of people outside of the building and what looks like a bouncer so it can be inferred that the building is a club. The couple is stumbling only slightly so they may have been drinking.

0:05-0:07: The couple stops in front of the gray car in the center of the screen. They are both nicely dressed which means they are decently wealthy and trying to impress each other. This could be their first date. The man is wearing sunglasses, even though its night time, and a leather jacket with a collared shirt under it. The woman is nicely dressed as well in a blazer, jeans, and heels. They are smiling at each other and leaning against the car, indicating that they had a good night and are both mutually interested in each other. Cars drive by behind them.

0:08-0:09: In this shot, the couple is no longer focused on each other. At this point they both look directly at the camera and the shot quickly focuses right on the man’s face. He is no longer lovingly smiling. His grin quickly fades into a more concerned look as if he had just heard bad news.

0:10-0:11- The man’s sunglasses vanish off of his face. The camera then zooms back out so both members of the couple are visible. The man is looking at the woman with a confused look on his face. The woman is no longer touching the man, she moves her arms away from him and closes her hands together, indicating a loss of interest. She also has a confused look on her face.

0:12-0:13: The camera zooms in again, this time on the man’s hand. He was wearing an elegant looking watch, and the watch vanishes. The man looks at his hand, realizes the watch is missing, takes a deep breath, and looks off into the distance. Are his possessions being stolen?

0:14: The shot zooms back out on both members of the couple still leaning on the car. This time, the couple is not lovingly touching and smiling at each other. They are simply standing there, the man with a confused look and the woman with an apathetic look.

0:15- 0:16: The camera zooms into the man’s nice jacket pocket. The pocket features one black button with red stitching. The stitching unravels itself, and the button falls down the man’s body and down his leg. This indicates that his possessions are not being stolen by a person, but rather his wealth is being taken away.

0:17: The camera follows the button’s path and it stops on the street right by the man’s feet. In the shot, the camera is focused on the man’s black dress shoes and black pants.

0:18: Still focused on the man’s feet, the man’s attire suddenly changes from nice shoes and pants to flip flops and destructed light blue jeans. This new look indicates a loss of wealth.

0:19: The camera pans up so now we can see the top half of both the man and the woman. It is revealed that the man is no longer wearing his nice jacket and collared shirt, he is now only wearing a white tank. The man is looking down at himself. The look could mean that he is confused and/or shamed by his new appearance. The woman is glaring at him. This could mean she is shocked or disgusted that she chose to leave the club with a guy dressed like this. She is not looking him in the face but only at his ragged clothing.

0:20: There is now a close up shot on the woman’s face. She is looking at the man with her eyebrows down and a concerned look on her face. She even rolls her eyes as if she is embarrassed to be with him.

0:21: The camera zooms all the way out onto the couple and the car again. The woman stands with her hand on her hip and looks as if she’s judging his looks. Cars continue to drive by behind them.

0:22: The woman vanishes. The man stands there, looking down in shame, at himself.

0:23-0:24: The car disappears. The people waiting in line and the bouncer at the building behind him disappear. The lights in the building turn off. The man stands in the street alone in his cheaper looking clothing. There are no cars driving by anymore.

0:25- The man looks back at the building and realizes that everyone is gone. Then, the camera zooms in on his face. His mouth is open and his facial features indicate sadness, shock, and confusion.

0:26-0:30: Words pop up on the screen: Buzzed, Busted, Broke. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. These words reveal that this couple was drinking inside the club and the man was about to drive buzzed. The ad shows the consequences of buzzed driving before they even got in the car. The man, busted for buzzed driving, would lose his wealth and his lavish appearance either from fines or paying for damages if there was an accident. He would lose his car, either through a car accident or through losing his license. He would lose the woman, either because they could get in a deadly accident or she wouldn’t want to be with someone who is broke and carless.

 

4 thoughts on “Moving Image-lmj20”

  1. For starters, LMJ, I’ve praised your work here:
    https://rowancounterintuitive.com/lectures/revision-group/revision-visual-analysis/

    I also indicated that, although you have an excellent handle on the assignment, there’s still room for improvement. You miss your first opportunity for depth of details in your first sentence. You call the car “gray,” but you don’t indicate that it’s apparently very new and certainly in good condition. When you claim that it may be the focus of the video, you acknowledge its importance, so it probably deserves a little more attention. Yes, that is extremely nit-picky, but the quality of the car, you have to admit, turns out to be an important component of the message.

    You do a well-above-average job of almost all your observations, but always leaving room for just a bit more.

    Now, it may be unfair to ask this last bit, but let me suggest that it would be reasonable to notice that the penalties imposed on this character are property and status losses. He loses his nice car and clothes, both of which were pivotal to his attractiveness to the girl. Without his stuff, he’s not that impressive, at least to a girl who’s attracted to clothes and a car.

    I’m suggesting that the argument could be quite different. If buzzed driving is drunk driving, we should be more concerned that the driver would crash his car and kill someone. You do suggest that the girl might have died, so you’re thinking along the same lines. Why not add to your analysis that the ad is clearly aimed squarely at drivers to whom their possessions are more important than anything else?

    Grade: Q

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