BLOG 3 - Relationships Between Shots

Throughout this scene, there is a close-up shot of the bride’s face. This shows the audience connect with and sympathies with the character and shows us directly who the protagonist is and who the antagonist is. The way the camera looks down on The Bride while the unseen Bill is implied to be standing over her shows us who is in control of this situation.

Bill has the authority and the power while The Bride is his victim, hence why we are looking down upon her. The use of black and white represents the despair and tragic mood of the scene. This makes for an odd inclusion into a martial arts movie and challenges the conventions. Even though it is mainly an action film, this scene is more of a thriller. The black and white color choice also can represent nostalgia: do The Bride and Bill have history? Is this a flashback?

There is an aerial view of the Bride where we look down almost directly on top of her face, putting the audience above the Bride in a position of power and almost in a point of view shot of the male character. There is a low-level tracking shot of the man’s pair of black and highly polished shoes walking slowly along the floor, taking his time it’s not as if she is about to go anywhere.

Then cutting back to the Bride’s face, and only the toe of the shoe is seen framed in the corner of the shot. The Bride is the focus here. This close-up to her face, his hand seems overly large and takes up most of the shot when it enters looking almost as big as her face. His whole hand is as big as her face, showing he holds a lot of power.