Assighnment # 6

The director clearly fallows all the rules for framing in the first 5 scenes of “For the Birds”. The first scene stars with a pan shot from right to left; this is used to establish the location of a power line along a long and lonely road in the planes of what I assume to be western United States. The camera then stops on a small piece of power lines where our first main character fly’s in and they begin pecking at each other. I consider the entire group of birds to be one character because they act the same and do the same thing. The camera zooms out much more than 30% ending with a wider scene of all the birds fighting, and then suddenly stopping at the insertion of a strange noise. The camera jumps greater than 30* to introduce the second character in the film. The camera then goes to a 1^st person shot just inside the 180% line to show the reaction of the birds. The short fallows all the rules of camera positioning, the 180 rule, the 30* rule, and the 30% rule. And it’s easy to see why, the entire short takes place in front of a power line, meaning all the action is going to take place along that line, causing the 180 degree line to never move. The location is very open and vast, and the camera has plenty of open space to move around and establish shots, even thou there is very little to establish in the middle of nowhere. The director did not really need to break any of the rules for this short, and everything can be explained with only a handful of camera angles and shots. However if the director was to break any of the rules, it would be easy to do because of how simple the scene is set up. We would immediately know what was going on.