It means what is in the shot. This can include the layout, the objects, the people, the mood, the story... it is basically what the picture is telling us. We analysed 4 different scenes.
In this picture we can see a man and a woman sitting at a dining table. The time isnt obvious, neither is the reason why they are sat there so we had to look at the surroundings to create the story.
They are both looking at eachother which represents comunication but the expression on their faces is not positive so we can asume there has been a fight or disagreement of some kind. When we look at what they are wearing we can guess what sort of year this is and what time of day it is, we guessed the year to be around 1980's and the time of day to be evening, because he is wearing a suit and looks tired also reading a newspaper to relax himself. She is wearing an apron which suggests she has been cooking but there is also a wine bottle on the table so we can then say that is it dinner time. When we look at the scene it seems to be split in thirds...
The man in one, the woman in another and the table is the centre of attention. This symbolises that they have some stuff that is keeping them apart. I think this is a really good way to show seperation and the positioning of everything just adds to the whole mood of the frame.
In this scene we can see that there are three characters in a house and they are all of different ages and probrably all have different stories. When we looked at this image the first thing we saw was this girl in the foreground (front) looking right out into the audience. We then saw the little boy at the desk and then looking a little more carefully we saw the woman sitting in the room behind. The time of day is hard to tell but we can see that it isnt night time because there is light coming through the window and the boy is still dressed, however it looks like the girl in the front is in her pyjamas. We thought maybe she is tied up to the bed because she works for the lady that is sat in the background and she has been accused of stealing but actually it was the little boy. Another assumtion is that she isnt actually there at all and she is thinking about it. If you look at this carefully you can see there are three layers also but instead of in width it is in depth:
I think the way they have lit the characters is very clever, they have the light on each one and nothing else like they are the key point and we need to see everything that they are doing in the scene. Also I like how the front character is breaking the forth wall. When you are working on a set there are usually four built walls and then another wall made up by cameras and audience, well when the actor looks right at the camera or out into the audience that is called breaking the fourth wall, I think it helps us connect with the character.
In this scene the character is looking at the bed. I instantly thought maybe a breakup, or someone had died or gone missing. She doesnt look happy and she is holding her stomache as if she is sad. However she is looking at the bed as if she is angry and dissapointed. This one doesnt have any different layers but it could have alot of different stories. It is hard to work out what kind of situation this character is in but I know that it isnt good.
Once again this one isnt very easy to work out, we have alot of clue onto where they might be and who they might be but we dont really know what has happened to get them here and what there relationship is. Some people suggested they had just had sex and the many different convosations they could be having
"why did i sleep with you?"
"oh great your leaving"
"well that was good, gotta get back to the wife"
It looks like she is on the floor so maybe she is isnt very well off and is sleeping with people for money, maybe she is house sitting. It also looks like he is quite a rich powerful man with the suit and the way he is sat (a way a man is sat tells us alot about them) and she looks really quite annoyed. There is a backlight on the man from the window and there is also some light on her from the lamp behind her, they are both having a cigarette which also suggests the after-sex-smoke. He is trying to explain something to her but she doesnt really want to listen.
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