The Architecture of the Screen by Graham Cairns

Author:Graham Cairns
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781841507118
Publisher: Intellect Books Ltd
Published: 2013-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Figure 9: Storyboard 3: design proposal.

The ‘scene’ begins with an image of one of the teams coming up a staircase. They are backlit and consequently are seen as shadowed figures against a clear background in shot number one. As they continue to come up the stairs, the camera swivels 180 degrees in order to frame the second team coming up another staircase positioned opposite in shot three and which is frontally lit11 (Fig. 10). Once both teams are introduced, the camera begins to track backwards and move into the centre of the court itself. At this point, both teams are now formed in two parallel lines and follow the route laid out by the camera. Once on the basketball court proper, the camera begins to move with more freedom in-between the players who also break out into more fluid and free lines of movement. After a few seconds moving in this way, the camera retreats from the action and tracks backwards. It ends up in a long passageway positioned off to the side of the court at which stage a secondary narrative is introduced and two additional non-specified characters are seen in shot. At this point, we have an image with a strong central perspective in which two unknown protagonists are positioned in the foreground and the basketball players are seen occupying the background (Fig. 11). Upon returning to the court, still without having resorted to a cut, the camera takes up its final position in the commentary box, at which point a cut is introduced. This cut signals the end of the scene as the film switches to the television images of a commercial TV channel (Fig. 12).

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