Sequence Deconstruction

Deconstruct the sequence, focusing your analysis particularly on the specific continuity techniques used to make the sequence flow and make sense.

There are 3 different camera shots used in this sequence: A Wide Shot, A MS of the door where Moss is standing and a MS of Roy and Jen standing together. The wide shot is the master/ establishing shot and has now shown us that Moss will be on the right of the screen and Roy and Jen will be on the left. This works as throughout the scene because Moss is looking towards the left of the screen, which symbolises that he is talking to the other two. This means that the director has taken into account the 180 degree rule. Even though the MS of them is straight on, Roy and Jen are speaking to somebody off-screen on the right. This makes the conversation flow well, the use of match-on-action working since the camera is always on the person talking, and they are facing the person off screen. At the end of the sequence when Moss walks out of the door the camera pans as if to follow him (even though he is on the other side of the wall). We can see Jen from behind now which adds to the audience’s knowledge of where everybody is.