This document analyzes a scene from the movie The Breakfast Club. It describes the five main characters (the Brain, Athlete, Basket Case, Princess, and Criminal) and how their appearances reflect their archetypes. It then analyzes the cinematography techniques used in the scene, including shot types like two shots, mid shots, and eye line matches to convey reactions and communication between characters. Lighting and sound are constant to keep focus on facial expressions and eye contact. The scene depicts one character, Bender, leaving to smoke and the others' hesitant reactions about joining him.

1. Sophie Blank

2. What’s it about?
• Brian Johnson the “Brain”
• Andrew Clark, the “athlete”
• Allison Reynolds, the "basket case”
• Claire Standish, the "princess”
• John Bender, the"criminal”

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• All connect
• All of them portray their characters really well.
• There’s the baddy, the popular, the nerd, the
sporty and the weirdo.
• The camera shots are repetitively continuous.
• One shot of a character, then a different one and
back to the first one

4. Performance and movement
• The characters don’t really use any body
language or gestures because the camera is
focused on the facial expressions.
• They all express different emotions linked to
their original character.
• They all have a different appearance,
reflecting on their character.

5. Lighting and sound
• The lighting doesn’t change throughout the
scene because the shots are taken in the same
room and the light intensity is approximately
the same in the entire room.
• There is barely any speaking because all of the
communicating is done by eye contact.

6. Shot types:
• Two shot/reverse shot: When Bender leaves
the room to go smoke, this shot is used to
show the reaction between the characters.
Shots from each character’s face suggest their
confusion and don’t really know if they should
join him or not. Since he is the “cool” one in
the group, they want to take part of his
rebellious act. Every teenager wants to be a
cool kid who doesn’t really care.

7. Shot types:
• The first shot is a wide shot: We can see parts
of the set but the camera is still focusing on
the two character’s reaction towards
eachother.
• Second shot is a mid shot: After the first shot
the camera cuts and focuses on the Claire and
the editor used a selective focus.

8. • Eye line match: Next shot goes back to the
two and we assume that Blender is looking at
Claire.
• Camera returns to Bender and Brian. Bender
leaves, camera still focusing on Brian.
• Then back to the mid shot of Claire: she sees
Bender leaving.

9. • Then a few shots between the two to show
their way of communicating and their reactions
towards what they’re saying.
• Then Claire stands up but the camera doesn’t
move to focus on her face.
• Then we see quick shot of Andrew’s reaction.
• Then a selective focus of Brian looking at Claire
leaving in the background.
• Mid shots of the characters looking at
eachother

10. • Medium shot of Andrew’s back from Allison’s
perspective – is he going to go as well ?
• Then the camera moves to the place where you
find all the characters smoking.
• Wide shot of the three characters.
• Then medium shot of Claire smoking and then
Blender’s reaction, then a medium shot of
Brian and Bender’s reaction
• Back to wide shot of three characters.
• Then medium shots between Bender and
Claire back and forth(flirting with each other)