Plastic Bag Composition

It is fairly ironic that our class was assigned to watch this short film right after we learned about the importance of shot composition. My favorite part of this film was that we never interacted with human subjects. There was no acting involved and the script was not overwhelming either. What made this film work was the shot composition alone. Who knew shooting a plastic bag the right way could make you have a relationship with it?
Last class we discussed and practiced shot composition. In my blog post on "Plastic Bag" I figured I would take it a step further and try to pick out things we talked about with a bag as the subject instead of a human figure. It was a little bit different, but I thought it was interesting to see that composition is consistent regardless of what you are shooting.

using objects in foreground to create depth


frame within a frame


high angle, horizontal and vertical lines


low angle


subjective


great depth of field


shallow depth of field, using diagonal lines to create depth


diagonal lines, rule of thirds


shallow depth of field


extreme wide angle


dirty single


shallow depth of field, diagonal line


close up


medium close up, 3/4


wide/long shot


extreme close up


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