The relationship of the sound to the images is that there is a soft music playing in the background and I think that it adds to the tension of how serious this scene is (Youtube American Hustle). The characters voices echo showing how wide and large this room is (Youtube American Hustle). Even though as the audience it is not shown exactly how big this room is, it gives the audience an idea of how large it is (Youtube American Hustle). The relationship of the images to one another is that because there is clearly a meeting going on there are many over the shoulder shots, close ups and POV shots (Youtube American Hustle).Which I think would make sense if there were a meeting going on and one was filming that meeting (Youtube American Hustle). At twenty-five seconds, the audience sees that the camera moves slowly around the table catching the back of each characters head and it ends at the back of the character Irving Rosenfeld’s head, played by Christian Bale (Youtube American Hustle/imdb American Hustle) with an over the shoulder shot looking at Victor Tellegio, played by Robert De Niro (Youtube American Hustle/imdb American Hustle). The way that the shots are organized in terms of their content, composition, color and movement is that they are very fluid and do not move very quickly, and the character that is dominating in this scene is Victor Tellegio, so the camera does not always focus on other characters speaking (Youtube American Hustle). While it does focus on some of the characters speaking it does not focus on all of them throughout the scene (Youtube American Hustle). There are many close ups of the Tellegio character, and the scenes do capture the surprised look that the characters had when Tellegio was able to easily speak another language at a minute eight seconds (Youtube American Hustle). While the camera moves in this scene overall the shots are very swift and not abrupt (Youtube American Hustle). This scene was still able to capture the tension when a character abruptly interrupts a conversation the main characters were having (Youtube American Hustle). In terms of color the whole scene is not brightly lit but one can still see the characters and setting (Youtube American Hustle). Overall the color is dark and monotone throughout this scene (Youtube American Hustle). The movements are also very calm and not sudden with the exception of when a character interrupts the conversation (Youtube American Hustle).
What determines how long the shots are is that while they do not focus very long on each characters face when they speak, the shot is held for a certain amount of time on specific characters to show their reaction and the seriousness of the scene (Youtube American Hustle). The shots that were held for some time or even for a few seconds were on Irving Rosenfeld, and Richie DiMaso, Bradley Coppers character, (Youtube American Hustle/imdb American Hustle), and Victor Tellegio (Youtube American Hustle). But what determines how long the shots are is the story line (Youtube American Hustle). In this scene the meeting with Tellegio is very serious because he is known for not hesitating to kill or seriously injure someone, so to focus on him most of the scene makes sense because he is a very powerful character (Youtube American Hustle). It is important to get both Cooper and Bale’s characters reaction but throughout the movie it has been shown what their journey has been, and so to now focus on another major character is a very good stylistic choice (Youtube American Hustle). There is a right place to cut and if this scene was cut were it was focused on the other two characters mostly it would have been a different scene altogether and in my own viewpoint probably not as strong (Youtube American Hustle). The cuts while they are clearly present, one would forget that they are there (Youtube American Hustle). The cuts fit into the story very well that one is more focused on being absorbed in the story than in the cuts themselves (Youtube American Hustle).
Here is a link to the scene that I was analyzing. Disclaimer I do not own this movie, video, or link. Enjoy. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBGaVMx-XQ
Works Cited
Russell, David O., Eric Warren Singer, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, David O. Russell, and Bradley Cooper. "American Hustle." Imdb. Imdb.com, 20 Dec. 2013. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. <http:// www.imdb.com/title/tt1800241/>.
SceneFreak. "Meeting with Victor Tellegio (Part 2) - American Hustle Scene." Youtube. Youtube.com, 22 Mar. 2014. Web. 30 Apr. 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUBGaVMx-XQ>.
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