#3 Relationships Between Shots

Movie: 8 Mile.

https://youtu.be/UGDl5qd83eU



This scene the character is focused and writing raps. The cut in this scene is not made with montage approach but with continuity editing. The first shot is tilting up to the character and the second shot is a close up  on the same character showing matching action. Then the next shot is an eyeline match. Next it goes to a wide shot showing two subject, followed my a low angle shot. At that moment goes into similar shots like before to a high angle shot. Trailed by another close-up shot, then a point of view shot that followed the 180-degree rule.  Finally, the last shots are a close up, high angle eyeline match technique, low angle, high angle again. Then ending with a wide angle shot showing both subjects and tilting down to end the scene. Shots are organized in terms of movement is that there isn’t a lot of it, you an tell they’re in a small space by most of the shots being very tight. And the specific editing approach of matched action and eyeline matches with multiple high and low shot shots may have served the intentions of the film makers because it shows the focus and determination the main character in what he is doing. And possibly showing the main characters motivation and the softness of the character in the seriousness of what he is doing.