Camera Analysis of Monarch of the Glen clip

The first part of the clip starts with a dolly shot, once again we can see the tools that men would use for hard labour, showing some sort of experience, and that these men are men of work.

Moving onto the next scene, the camera pans from the doorway across the courtyard into an over the shoulder shot, which is a medium long shot of the girl (as the camera only allows us to see to just below her knees) this allows us to see her costume and body language, and this is a representation of age, we can tell from her costume and the way she is standing that she is clearly a teenager and younger than most of the other characters, the panning of the camera from the doorway across the courtyard also shows us a glimpse of the scene and where they are.

The camera then moves into a dolly shot of the girl in the car, then moving into a close up so we can read her emotions and shows us her confusion and uncertainty of how to start the car, this emphasises her emotions to show us she doesn’t know what she’s doing, she’s lying about being able to drive.

At the car crash scene, we can automatically see that this is a wide shot to show us the change of the scene and establish the new location. Then when the headmaster gets out of the car the camera moves to a medium long shot of him, once again to show his costume and body language, from this we can clearly see his angry expression. His costume gives us an idea of the type of character he is, this creates a young vs old conflict. We then see a shot reverse shot of the headmaster, to the man, back to the headmaster with the camera panning in-between characters conversation, this is also a representation of age, by the sudden movements we see the difference in age and the height/authority is emphasised. When Amy is then obviously caught out the vulnerability of her is emphasised and we sympathise with her as the camera is brought down to her eye level to make us relate to how she is feeling, almost childish, this would also be considered as a two shot close up of Amy and the woman.

Moving onto the office/study scene, straight away we have a long shot of the two men, this once again establishes the new location and we can see that the room is an adult room, we wouldn’t see teenagers bedrooms like this, this is a representation of age once again, there choice of place is mature and old fashioned. The camera then moves onto a low angle shot when the man offers the headmaster some brandy, this is almost from Amy’s point of view, and it gives the two men an authority of age, once again a representation of age, between the men and Amy.

We then get a close-up and a medium close up when the man is telling off Amy, this is once again putting us in Amy’s shoes/position and it makes us feel like where getting told off, there is also the use of the shot reverse shot as it pans from the man to Amy to see each others reactions and body language/facial expressions as this is quite an intense moment.

We then have a wide shot of a field to establish the change of scene.

Next we have a montauge of camera work, we have a mixture of close ups, long shots and mid shots, this is put together for thematic purpose, this is mainly showing the use of tools and is a source of theme building through editing, it also condenses time.

The next scene is the bedroom scene, here there is a change of scene but no establishing shot, the camera tilts to show us a shot of a stuffed animal and moves down (or tilts to reveal) her goodbye note, the camera then pans to revel the second teddy bear and another note with girly childish handwriting. The camera then tilts up to reveal Amy putting on her backpack, then pans and zooms into a photograph on her mirror, this emphasises her emotions to what’s going on, her youth is emphasises through the camerawork. We then have a long shot to show the window Amy went out of to emphasise her over-reaction to the whole situation which gives us a childish impression once again, but the camera is now outside looking in through the window to emphasise with Amy, we once again see things from her point of view. The medium close up of the woman looking out of the window is to show her emotion to what’s going/gone on.

The final scene in which the camera is aPauls eye level, this makes us feel his guilt, where experiencing the narrative from his perspectivet  and this puts us in the frame, we feel like where there with him feeling his emotion.