Pages 305-307 → Film
The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned. Dallas stopped again, and looked up. "It must be here," he said, slipping his arm through his father 's with a movement from which Archer 's shyness did not shrink; and they stood together looking up at the house.
It was a modern building, without distinctive character, but many-windowed, and pleasantly balconied up its wide cream-coloured front. On one of the upper balconies, which hung well above the rounded tops of the horse-chestnuts in the square, the awnings were still lowered, as though the sun had just left it. "I wonder which floor--?" Dallas …show more content…
We experience the past as clearly as we experience the present through memories, which are emphasized with our own personal attachments to those memories.
This scene does not move the frame often in this small scene. The main character, Archer is front and center in the first shot and the proximity of the close up engages the viewer into Archer 's personal thoughts. However, the frame includes several background characters to freely walk through the shot while remaining out of focus. This effect is used to immerse the viewer in Archer’s memory, influencing the eye to ignore the meaningless background characters and to emphasise the meaning of his memory to himself. Next, the frame quickly cuts to a low shot of the glass window leading to Ellen’s apartment. This angle is Archer 's point of view as he is below this window, but that change of positions, from featuring solely Archer to putting him below the next subject, reveals the amount of importance the present image of Ellen has over Archer. This frame also features a distinct tree to the right. Holding an equal weight in the frame, it may reference the coming shot that encompasses Archer’s memory of the past Ellen by the waterfront
The day was fading into a soft sun-shot haze, pricked here and there by a yellow electric light, and passers were rare in the little square into which they had turned. Dallas stopped again, and looked up. "It must be here," he said, slipping his arm through his father 's with a movement from which Archer 's shyness did not shrink; and they stood together looking up at the house.
It was a modern building, without distinctive character, but many-windowed, and pleasantly balconied up its wide cream-coloured front. On one of the upper balconies, which hung well above the rounded tops of the horse-chestnuts in the square, the awnings were still lowered, as though the sun had just left it. "I wonder which floor--?" Dallas …show more content…
We experience the past as clearly as we experience the present through memories, which are emphasized with our own personal attachments to those memories.
This scene does not move the frame often in this small scene. The main character, Archer is front and center in the first shot and the proximity of the close up engages the viewer into Archer 's personal thoughts. However, the frame includes several background characters to freely walk through the shot while remaining out of focus. This effect is used to immerse the viewer in Archer’s memory, influencing the eye to ignore the meaningless background characters and to emphasise the meaning of his memory to himself. Next, the frame quickly cuts to a low shot of the glass window leading to Ellen’s apartment. This angle is Archer 's point of view as he is below this window, but that change of positions, from featuring solely Archer to putting him below the next subject, reveals the amount of importance the present image of Ellen has over Archer. This frame also features a distinct tree to the right. Holding an equal weight in the frame, it may reference the coming shot that encompasses Archer’s memory of the past Ellen by the waterfront