Essay on Kill Bill shots

Shot 1 is a shot of the bride walking backwards through the church. You could see many different things in the background that are wedding related whether it be the pews of a church or the woman in the bridal dress. This sets the scene to people watching. The woman seems to be smiling whilst walking past everyone showing that she is currently happy. half way through the shot you begin to hear a flute playing in the background as a non-diegetic sound. This shot is filmed by Tracking backwards at the same pace as the woman walking through the church. Shot 2 is a view of a doorway looking outside the church in a central position on the screen. As the doorway is shown the music changes to a more eerie music as if things are not as normal as they had first seemed. This shot is from the point of view of the bride. This is perhaps done to give you a closer relationship to the woman. The door is shot using a long-shot technique. This is done as when you enjoy something it seems to go by fast and if it not fun it goes by slowly. By making it a long-shot it makes it seem further away and shows she is filled with dread.

The next shot is of the woman looking down at the man playing the flute. This is done because through the speech you can tell that he is an intimidating man and by her looking down at him, it shows that today is her day and she is in control. It is a closeup of both faces to show the emotion and to get more personal with the viewer. The shot then transitions to one of the man putting the flute down. He does this very cautiously and to me this shows lots of respect for the woman. It also tells me that he wants to behave and to grant the bride her wish of being nice. This is shot in mid shot this is done because these two characters are just chatting casually making the viewer more relaxed.  

The shots then move to shot reverse shot as the two characters are moving closer and closer together. To me this shows that the two characters are becoming more comfortable with each other the more that they chat. As it shows the panning to right to left for the bride and left to right for the man it goes at the same speed as the two characters and is a low shot. This is a good way to show the tension as they are never in the same shot until this point.

The scene where the two characters are face to face lasts for around 1 min 15 secs. I believe that they have done this as it makes it see like the whole sequence has been shot in one continuous shot making the person watching have a more personal and a lot more concentrated view of each individual character. They may also do this as if they are speaking for a long time it engages the audience into what they are actually saying rather than the different shot types.