Analyse a scene from Johnny English Reborn
This scene describes a man standing behind a glass to supervise and control Johnny to kill someone. The lighting is a little dark and shadowy in this room and the color closes to a cold color blue and green, which can build up a nervous and suspense atmosphere for a murder planning.
People having a meeting displays through an over-the-shoulder shot, also we can see a man reflected from the glass and Johnny sit opposite of him.
Then a medium shot tells us the man behind the glass is asking Johnny to ‘stand up and go to the water table’.
This shot may be used by a crane or a jib, I’m not sure about it. I just see the overall view in this shot and the camera may be set in a higher position. From this shot with a high angle, we can clearly understand what’s happen in here – someone is behind the glass, three people have a meeting in here and Johnny is walking to a table.
A panning shots from here, we can see Johnny’s action and facial expression, then he stand the opposite of the man and his body reflected from the window. (How does the camera set that it can’t be reflected from the glass and the characters can come out at the same time on the glass?)
A close-up focuses on the weapon-a lipstick, then Johnny hold it and pain his lip following the man’s demand with a medium close-up. His facial express shows clearly in this shot.
Then the shot cut to a whole view with the wide shot, we can see the situation of this meeting – many people sit behind the glass and to supervise this meeting, and there is a woman comes out with a close-up at the moment, she says “something wrong”.
And then the background music achieves at a climax from the man asking Johnny to kill Shang. The music always build up different atmosphere for audience, like this shot, the music is really exciting that can make people feel nervous. There is a tracking shot to show the action of characters.
A track-in shot shows the woman facial expression changes and different angles with tracking shots to display the situation of characters from the woman’s view.
There is a jump cut between the action of the woman, the man and the Johnny. Also, Johnny hold the weapon to point to the Shang with a medium shot, then cut to a dirty shot and a medium shot to display other characters’ expression under a blur arm holding a weapon.
A dissolved transition combines a monk with characters and then the shot jumps to Johnny’s medium shot, it is clearly shows that a memory of Johnny helps him to stop the action.After that, the montage with different camera angles and tracking shots to film Johnny struggling with himself as the background music is increasingly exciting.
Is this shot that Johnny tries to take the lipstick with a dutch angle and a low angle?
A higher camera angle to look down upon the IT staff that he is working with the computer, then it cuts to a extreme close-up shot to focus on his figures to tell the audience what’s he doing behind the glass. The situation of the whole scene outside, other characters expression and actions displays by panning shots. Also, the camera moves quickly to show the nervous and urgent situation for audience.
There is a over-the-shoulder wide shot to show Johnny’s action and it clearly means that the relationship between the characters. Additionally, Johnny begins to dance as a happy music playing, this kind of background music means that the emergency of Johnny closes to finish and brings the comedy elements to audience.
The jump-cuts with the medium close-up to show three characters’ action and expression. The montage of Johnny’s dancing shoots in the wide shots from different views.
The background music plays most exciting again, and a close-up shot clearly shows the man angry expression. Other characters’ reflection displays by the jump-cuts after the action of the man controls Johnny exposed.