Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonquil_flowers_at_f5.jpg
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jonquil_flowers_at_f5.jpg
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The
Best Years of Our Lives (William
Wyler, 1946). Additional examples from Wyler and Orson Welles. |
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Lateral Camera Movement: Batala's death is announced. See a video clip from this scene. |
| Lateral Camera Movement and Composition in Depth: After a complicated crane shot, the billboard is removed from Charles' window and Estelle is brought to him from across the courtyard. See frame grabs and video clip from this scene. |  |
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Lateral Camera Movement: Batala's death scene -- see frame
grabs and video clip from this scene. Bazin's diagram:  Source: Bazin, André. "The Era of the Popular Front." In Jean Renoir, pp. 36-52. Edited and with an introduction by Francois Truffaut. Translated by W. W. Halsey II and William H. Simon. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973. |
| Deep Focus and Composition in Depth: Note guards in the foreground. |  |
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Shallow Focus and Composition in Depth: Boildeau comments on marching soldiers in the first frame. Renoir keeps them visible through the window in the second frame. The marching soldiers are slightly out of focus. |
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Christine and St. Aubin enter a room in the background while Octave (in bear suit) looks on. |
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St. Aubin tells Octave to get lost. The dancing skeletons are barely visit in the background--through two doorways. |
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André searches for Christine as Schumacher (behind him) and Lisette look for Marceau. Note Octave, in bear suit, in the background where he's speaking with St. Aubin in the room where Christine is hiding. |
