Yobi - scene analysing

Referring to The Grammar of Television and Film by Daniel ChandlerUWA 1994 .


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One of the interesting scene is this movie is when Yobi’s classmate called Yobi out from the washroom and warn her for keep on seducing Guem-ie. The animated film length is around 1 hour 25 minutes and 30 seconds.The scene happens at the timeline 00:46:11- 00:47:15.

In this scene, all shots are made in eye-level angle. There is not much camera movement except for slightly zoom in and tracking. Mostly medium shot/ mid-shot are being used when Yobi is talking with her classmate who has a crush on Hwang Guem-ie. The reason of using mid-shot is because when the two girls are talking, they have a lot of hand movements and different kind of facial expression instead of having too many movements on their legs as they are just standing there. Other than that, medium long shot is also being applied after Yobi’s classmate pointed at Yobi and listening to what Yobi going to say about herself. In this case, the purpose is to keep the social circumstances rather than just focusing on one character. It is also called as a two-shot since it is a shot of involving two persons at the same time.

Afterwards the camera is capturing Yobi instead of Yobi’s classmate because Yobi is talking and she is making those funny faces to cool down her classmate’s temper. The shot continues with a matched cut where the camera angle changed and turned to Yobi’s classmate having a frustrated facial look. When Yobi asked her classmate about the fact she is a fox, they use side medium shot so that the audience is able to see the hand gesture of Yobi.
The close up shot (one point view) cut towards Yobi’s classmate when she raised her hand and slap on Yobi’s left cheek, her hand reached near to the camera as though the camera is Yobi’s face. Then the reaction cut happened where Yobi is almost fell and long shot is being used to show the complete figures of theirs including the surroundings. Next we can see Yobi holding her face where a medium close shot is made to show her dramatic reaction when she turned her head over to her classmate and starting to smile again.

Later on long shot is being used again as both of the girls starting to have more body movement. Yobi’s classmate tilted her legs and clenched her fist, she is mad. This happened to be the most amusing part of this movie when Yobi’s classmate squad down and cried because Yobi misunderstood that a slap meaning that she loves her. The kicking legs of her when she sit on the ground and cried somehow portrays that she is somehow childish for having such negotiation with Yobi. The scene ends with Yobi bend down then squad down and comfort her with left hand. Yobi still not sure about what is going on; it is written on her innocent face.

As lighting can influence the audience approach towards a character or setting, soft and high-key lighting are being used in the scene to show sunny day. This bright image of the scene is characteristic of entertainment genre such as love comedies.

The use of sound in this scene is direct sound which is also called live sound which is created by the Mother Nature creature. Birds chirping sounds can be heard in this scene as the scene took place in day time, as sunny afternoon. Other than that, there are only the two girl characters talking sounds.