Post 4 - Another Shot Reverse Shot Example

This is another example of a shot reverse shot:

The use of shot reverse shot is changed during this short clip and is therefore a good example. The shot starts over a man's shoulder but is then reversed over the shoulder of the opposing female to reveal two characters in their two shot. The uniqueness of this is the distribution of space this creates and also balancing the perspective of the man's view of the vicar character and the female, creating a greater sense of composition and the illusion of equality. One thing slightly negative about this shot is the uneven eyeline match of the initial shot, in which a significant character is placed lower in height due to physicality and the initial aspect of her disillusionment. If I were to re-compose the shot I would create the initial shot over the shoulder of the shorter female to establish the man's height over her and that would allow the audience to acknowledge his height and the eyeline match would be unimportant as her height is almost a humorous device in the scene's context.