Cinematography: blog analysis tasks

Opening sequence from the Italian movie, "Malèna".

ANALYSIS UP TO 2:50

A tilt shot establishes a street alley shown through a wide shot. There is a long shot of car approaching low angle transition, giving soldiers authority. Tilt to low angle.  Dolly shot backwards as the camera pans to show 2 men and a boy fixing a bike.

Medium close up of the boy fixing a bike, its a two-shot.

 Low angle of the other man, giving him status. It cuts to another low angle of the other man. Its in the perspective (POV shot)of the small boy who is powerless, fixing the bike. It repeatedly cuts and a low angle shot alternates between each man to show the perspective of the small boy with less status.

Tracking shot of the boy rising the bike, suggesting hes a main character.

Tilt upwards to show the grand number of people crowding in town. 

Tilt downwards to show boy approaching on the bike. Camera tilts up and zooms to show people crowding and cheering at something. It then cuts to the perspective (pov shot)of what the crown are looking at. A dictator is seen with guards, looking over the crowd.

There is a close up, low angle of a soldier., The focus is lost from his face as were drawn to the people in the balcony behind cheering.

A tracking shot follows the boy on the bike in the countryside. It cuts to a close up shot from a behind angle of a woman brushing her hair. It then cuts to the boy again.

There is a wide angle extreme long shot of a crowd of people clapping. The camera pans to show a group of people clapping in a long shot.

There is a birds eye view of the roofs of houses. An extreme close up of an ant walking is seen There is a POV shot of a boy looking through a magnifying glass at the ant. We can see his face though the glass looking directly into the camera which takes on the perspective of the ant. There is a shot reverse shot as the camera focuses back on the ant with a close up. The boys are seen again looking down at it in a POV shot.

There is a close up tracking shot of the boys bike chain as he peddles.

Close up tracking shot of a woman's feet as she walks, enigma code as we question who this is as we've previously seen her brushing her hair.

In this movie still from, Kill Bill: Volume 1.

There is is a low angle POV shot. We can assume there's someone laying down on the ground looking up at the 4 characters. 

These characters are dressed in black, giving them mystery and authority.

The low angle shot automatically gives them physical status and power over the subject. 

They occupy stern and serious faces suggesting they could be a threat.

Its a medium close up shot as we can see the 4 characters from the mid section up.