This document analyzes cinematography techniques used in the film The Descent. It describes several shots from the film clip: a wide shot that starts blurred and slowly gains focus on a character waking up, achieved using a rack focus camera move. It also describes a mid shot focused on the character waking up in a hospital bed, a trombone shot used to show her expression as darkness approaches, and wide shots to make her feel lonely and show her running from the darkness. It notes a scene using a 360 degree camera move to show life continuing normally around two comforting characters.

1. Cinematography -
Analysing The Decent
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2. Clip 3
This is the first scene of the clip it starts
of as a wide shot and starts of blurred
revealing someone that has just woke up
and slowly gains focus. The camera used
for this is a rack cam as it slowly moves
closer and closer without the camera
shaking as it is a smooth move forward.

3. Clip 3
Mid Shot- in this image a static shot is used to show that the
image is focused on Sarah suddenly waking up on the hospital
bed.

4. Trombone shot – this shot is
used as an affect to show the
expression on Sarah's as the
fading background as she can
see the darkness coming as if
its trying to take her in to the
dark.
Steady wide cam – they use a wide shot
to make Sarah feel lonely this also shows
that she is running from the darkness.
Wide stedicam – its point of view of
something chasing Sarah in the dark.

5. This is a scene showing one character comforting the other it also goes
around the 360 degrees angle to show that every thing else is still going on
around them normally.

6. This scene shows someone crying for what her friend is going threw this
shows emotion and gives the audience an idea of how they re all feeling.