Establishing Shot Scene Essay

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Establishing Shot - Kris Sonny The scene starts off with a medium shot at eye level of a hospital’s waiting room, the camera pans from left to right across the lobby. The scene uses ambient lighting. It is filled with green seats in rows, all vacant but one. There is classical piano Chopin’s (nocturne op. 27 No. 2, etude op10 no3) playing in the background. There is one person sitting down with her hands in her laps, fingers intertwined twiddling her thumbs back and forth. Her clothes appear to be tighter, and her belly is swollen. The sound of sirens echo throughout the lobby breaking the calmness of the piano, the lady stands and looks outside the window to see flashing red lights. From a medium shot two men dressed in scrubs pull a man from a stretcher …show more content…

A sidewalk with trash aligned to it can be seen. The whole neighborhood is lit up, and the morning sun rise can be seen from the background. A lady wearing ragged clothing is carrying a baby and has her backpack on. A tracking shot of the lady continues from behind, she’s struts down the sidewalk until she reaches a door with yellow and blue letters “Daycare.” She rings the doorbell “It’s Maria.” A sound of a click and a door opens. The lady enters into a room filled with baby cribs and toys of stars and rockets attached to the sealing. One crib is three-point lighted. A close up of the baby’s sleeping face is shown in the mother’s arms and the camera zooms out a little. Both the mom’s face with eye bags and baby’s sleeping face is visible. The mom gently places the baby into the crib and says “sleep well.” A low angle camera shot from the baby’s crib shows the mother leaving, and closing the door. The baby starts to cry, and the mother opens the door, and from a POV of the baby the mother’s face is completely visible again. The camera cuts to a mid-angle medium shot and the mother begins to sing a melodic

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