There is a scene in Cuffs where Ryan, Jake, Jo, and Carl breach the racist's house, Ryan runs straight out, pursuing the criminal whilst Jo and Carl are trying to restrain the others, leaving only Jake left, not knowing what to do. During this confrontation between Jo and Carl against the racist's friends, the camera takes the form of a POV of Jake whilst the footage gets slowed down so we have a slow-motion shot of the action taking place, alongside the voices getting muffled, possibly showing that Jake is afraid and doesn't know what he's doing.
Afterwards, we cut to Felix trying to consult with the mother of an abducted child. The mother is really distressed and we keep getting shot-reverse shot between them. As the conversation goes on, Felix continues to not make eye contact, showing that he was embarrassed by what had happened. This is quite visible with the help of this type of edit. Later we see him reviewing the video he was shown, the camera holds his face in the frame as he realizes where the abducted child is. We then cut to the screen with a slow zoom-in that shows where the kidnapper and kidnapped are.
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ReplyDelete1. Cut opening sentence (general not specific)
2. Slomo example. Be sure to put the editing terms first (as POV is camerawork)
3. Shot / reverse shot sequence: good at identifying editing; be sure to do the same EAA with the third example.