Movie Critique

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This is a scene from one of my favorite movies, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy. The cinematographer for this movie was Thomas E. Ackerman, who has also done Beetlejuice, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and Jumanji, to name a few. In this scene Ron is telling his news team about his new found love for Veronica Corningstone. This first shot is a XWS which depicts the offices of the newsroom and you can see Ron and his news team conversing in his office. The next scene is a WS of the team and shows the audience they are in Ron's office. In the next shot Ackerman uses virtual lines to show a dialogue between him and Champ Kind. Champ is wearing a large cowboy hat which makes him have a very square shaped head, and Ron's head is more round. This demonstrates an obvious difference between the characters and their viewpoints about the current conversation. During the next scene Champ is the only character not standing up, I think Ackerman did this to show that he doesnt have as much interest in Ron's speal about his love life as the other two characters who are listening intently. Hence why the other characters have similar shaped heads as Ron. This next shot is a CU 2S and Ackerman once again uses virtual lines to illustrate that Brick is intrigued with the story that Brain Fantana is telling about how he was once in love. Also you notice that Brian never looks at Brick and isn't concerned that he is even in the room. The colors used for both Ron and Brain are cooler colors, and the colors for Brick and Champ are warmer colors. I think they did this to depict that Brian and Ron and on the same page about love, but Champ doesn't really care what Ron has to say, and Brick is just off in this own world. In this next scene with Veronica and her camera man, Veronica is wearing warmer neutral colors and her camera man is wearing a cooler blue color. This shows that Veronica is the more important character in this scene, and has authority over her crew members.