The Place Beyond The Pines Analysis
The first part of this scene in ‘The Place Beyond The Pines’ starts with an establishing shot of a fair ground, whilst we see this shot we can hear the narrative of the two characters talking, the scene then switches to a close up of a man talking so we can establish who is talking. This shot is eye level and has very neutral lighting, we get a shot reverse shot of Ryan Gosling and the other man talking, all at eye level to make the audience feel as if they are part of the conversation. The camera also looks handheld to add to this. The scene then switches to an extreme long shot of Luke (Ryan Gosling) riding a motorcycle, the camera follows him with a tracking shot and uses high key lighting because he is outside. The next shot is an over shoulder, mid shot of him knocking at the door. The use of mise en scene in this shot creates a contrast as we can see he is wearing all white but this scene switches to quite low-key lighting because he is standing at a black door. The contrast of c...