Blog Post- Composition

 Composition- Blog Post #4

1. My first shot was a rule of thirds shot, with a classmate standing with his arms crossed next to some gorgeous paintings. It was taken in a deep depth of field to clearly show both my classmate and his surroundings of the artwork visible to the viewer. Him having his arms crossed, and not looking at the artwork he is standing next to, is meant to show the audience a very pessimistic and apathetic aspect of my classmate's personality and cause them to feel contempt towards him and shocked he isn't admiring the artwork. The audience is also meant to feel a sense of awe towards the paintings.

2. My second shot was a shallow focus shot of a classmate. By blurring the backdrop around him and focusing mostly on his face, the audience has no chance to be distracted by other factors and is essentially made to focus on him. The look on my classmate's face shows a sense of entitlement, and the audience is meant to feel contempt from looking at him, and a sense of annoyance that they cannot at least focus on parts of the backdrop. 

3. My third shot was a standard focus shot of a classmate. This classmate of mine was wearing our school's Military Academy uniform and was saluting. The backdrop is blurred, which makes the audience focus solely on him and render them completely unable to be distracted by other factors. By having my classmate salute, the audience is meant to feel inspired and protected from his heroicness. Him wearing our school's Military Academy uniform further adds to the heroic nature meant to be portrayed by this shot and serves to add to the audience feeling inspired and protected by the heroicness of my classmate.

4. My fourth shot was a deep focus shot. In this shot, two classmates are comfortably sitting in chairs, having an engaging conversation, while a third classmate stands in desperation and loneliness as he watches the conversation he appears to have been excluded from. This shot shows only those three classmates, and the setting is of the school library. The fact that the third classmate did not even pick a chair speaks to the exclusionary dynamic of the friend group. The audience is meant to feel pity towards my classmate for having been excluded from the trio and angry at the other two classmates for their seemingly deliberate creation of a duo within the trio. Those who can relate to the feeling of being left out of their friend groups (especially the "duo within a trio" phenomenon) will feel especially strong emotions influenced by their own personal experiences of social ostracism.

5. My fifth shot is a focus pull shot. This shot first focuses clearly on a classmate and leaves the artwork blurry, and then does the reverse: blurs the classmate and then focuses clearly on the artwork. This shot is meant to show new information, which was supposed to be the true appearance of the artwork. By leaving the artwork blurry at first, the audience's curiosity is raised as to what the artwork looks like. Then, the artwork gets unblurred and exposed, which causes the audience to feel an even deeper sense of awe towards the artwork as they are excited about the disclosure of a "secret".