5a

I was drawn to the original image because of the uniqueness of it.  I still don’t understand the full concept, but the long piece of cloth he’s holding creates a line across one of the lines associated with the rule of thirds.  However, I thought that I could take the rule of thirds to the next level so I reframed it so not only the cloth was on one of the lines, but the boys body was also.  Because his body is bigger than the cloth it affects how the lines are perceived by the viewer.  We start from the bottom left and go up his body till we get to the cloth and then move across the shot to the right.  There is both contrast and affinity between these two pictures because the boy the cloth is still the main thing our eyes are attracted to, however in my cropped version you are lead to the cloth by the boy.  I believe that the original photo was taken the way it was because the photographer wanted the focus to be on the cloth for artistic purpose.  Also the way the boy is framed in the original leaves even space on both sides of him, where in mine one side is very closed and the other is very open.  This creates an affect of unevenness and throws off the balance of the image also helping to direct your eyes to the left side of the screen where his body is.

5b

This scene is a great example of Quinton's directing genius.  There are few things we can look at that make this such a well shot scene, such as the rhythm of the shots.  As the dialogue goes, the shots move almost rhythmically back and forth from Travolta to Jackson, because of this we get into the groove of seeing those two closely framed shots coming until about 50 seconds in where we the shot changes to Travolta turning around.  That brings me to my next point which is the use of framing and rhythm as a team.  Because we're used to the rhythm of the shots going back and forth, when it doesn't happen we feel as if something's wrong or different.  Along top of this, the framing of the shot has Travolta's gun right on one of the lines associated with the rule of thirds.  This leads our eye to it and then BOOM, marvin gets shot in the face.  I think that was Terrantino's mindset when he shot this.

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