The Graduate Graduation Party Scene Analysis

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SHOT LIST: The Graduate - Graduation Party Scene

Shot: 1.
Time: 1 min 28 sec.
Shot Size: Close-up and Medium close-up.
A close-up of Ben sitting in his own room. Ben is placed in the middle of the shot in focus. There is a well-lit aquarium behind him that takes up the whole background. In it, on the right side of Ben, there is fish, on the left side there is a scuba diver that blows bubbles to the surface. Ben’s face is lit on the left side while his right side is dark. He’s wearing a white shirt and a tie. Mr. Braddock opens a door off-frame and Bens entire face is lit. Mr. Braddock then sits down in front of Ben, taking most of the frame space on the left side of the frame. We see mostly the back of his head which is not in focus, the
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Mrs. Braddock then come into the frame, blocking the entire frame with her dress. The camera then pulls back a little and moves up while all three of them stands up making it a medium close-up. Ben is placed in the middle of the frame between Mrs. Braddock, who stands in front of him helping him putting on a suit jacket, and Mr. Braddock, who is standing behind him wearing a suit as well. The camera moves backwards tracking all three while they are walking out of Bens’s room into a white hallway. Mrs. Braddock is on the left, Ben in the middle and Mr. Braddock on the right. Ben is walking slightly in front of them while Mrs. Braddock is grooming Ben. The light on them changes as they walk, creating a lot of shadows in their faces. The camera then stops in the hallway and horizontally pans, still following the three as they walk down a staircase disappearing out of …show more content…
and Mrs. Braddock is behind him, getting in and out of the frame as the hand-held camera is moving backwards while the three of them are moving down the stairs. Mrs. Braddock hands is on Bens shoulders. A dressed up couple meets the three Braddock’s in the staircase and The lady gives Ben a kiss on the cheek blocking him in the frame before she steps back leaving Ben in the middle of the frame surrounded by 4 people; Mr. and Mrs. Braddock, who stands behind and over him in the starcase, and the couple, who stands under and in front of him in the staircase. Ben leaves the couple and his parents and the camera follows him walking in a white hallway, keeping him in the middle of the frame on a close-up. Ben turns around so we just see the back of his head as he opens a door in front of him. Behind the door is Mr. Loomis in a suit who grabs Ben putting Ben on the right side of the frame and himself on the left side. The camera pulls back a little as Mr. Loomis brings Ben back into the hallway where they and the camera stop. Mr Loomis is now half out of frame, half in the frame at the left upper corner looking down at Ben who is in the mid-right of the frame looking up at Mr. Loomis. Behind them is the open doorframe and the dark outside, contrasting the well-lit lightning inside. Mr. Loomis leaves the frame and Bens starts walking towards the camera as the camera pulls back, keeping Ben in a close-up in the middle of

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