Merlin essay

The reason I wrote about this is because it will help me with our main task. we analysed camera movements and camera shots and angles used in this extract which means it would help me have a better idea of what they are when it is time to edit the main task. In the princess scene, there is a part when she is walking in the hallway. Here a panning zoom and a long shot are used to signify what is she is wearing and how she is walking with calmness. This highlights the power and status. The fact that we are shown what she is wearing already tells us that she is a powerful and poised princess and it also shows that she is important and she belongs in that castle and then the camera gets shifted on to Merlin. A mid-shot of his clothes already tells us what category he's in (the poor category).A quick close up and a zoom of his face are used to make him look like an intruder who shouldn't be in the room he's in. a zoom and close up is used to show a doll and book that Merlin is holding. the fact that they highlight these two things shows their importance and that he shouldn't be touching them and it also highlights that these things don't belong to him because of the way he's holding them. it's so stereotypical showing the poor person Merlin looking like an intruder. this shows us that the castle is not where he is meant to be. when Merlin walks out of the castle to go to the market, a high Angle boom shot is used to show he's vulnerable and not important. A pan shot is used to show the surroundings and people in the market and the fact that there are people walking in front of him tells us he's a commoner and this is his scene, he belongs here. the pan shot also shows him looking so comfortable in the market. in the fight scene, we are looking forward to see lots of camera angles showing power and status because there is a prince involved in that scene. but camera plays with our minds a bit because when you watch the scene you see that both of them are on eye level and no one has more power than the other. although we see the prince and Merlin on the same level every time, there is a in the fight scene where a low angle shot is used on prince Arthur where we finally see status and power. this low angle shot is used to show who has more power than the other but we are shown this for just a millisecond, there is also a bit of status and power shown when we see Arthur talking to Merlin before the fight we are shown that has these two buddies who are there to support him whereas Merlin has no one. this shows a scene of hierarchy and inequality because obviously Arthur has more power than Merlin, he also has an advantage with the status and power because he's a prince whereas Merlin is not. and then as the scene goes on they are back to being equal.