Monday, 14 October 2013

Hot Patootie, Bless my Soul

I was watching 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' this weekend, and I noticed some interesting camera angles in the scene with Eddie (Meatloaf), during his song 'Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul'.



At the start of the clip, I noticed some 'match on action' as Eddie came through the blocks of ice.
You see the door falling forward with the wall of ice behind it. The shot then cuts to Eddie on his motorcycle from behind. This then cuts to him coming through the doorway from the front, covered in tiles of ice. This is not dissimilar to what we did for our preliminary tasks: match on action - coming through a doorway from the front and behind.

1:18 seconds into the clip (when Eddie is playing the saxophone) I notice the angle changes to the camera being below the actor.
A few seconds later, Eddie begins kicking at the camera lens giving the impression that he's stamping on it, which I thought was interesting and it also went in time to the music which gave a nice flow to it.

One other camera angle I thought was effective was at 2:13 seconds into the clip. It shows a long shot of Rocky dancing to Eddie's song with Frank n Furter watching him in the background. A few seconds later the shot changes to a mid-shot of Frank n Furter still looking at Rocky.

Finally at the end of the song when Eddie dismounts his motorcycle, Frank n Furter attacks him with an ice pick from the freezer. Here there is a shaky 'shot reverse shot' of Frank and Eddie. The camera is clearly no longer on a track but follows Eddie as he falls to the ground and backs up into the freezer again.

The film in general has elements of the similar genre I would like to address in my own film opening, and I shall aim to use a few of the camera techniques seen here.

P.S. I hope none of the content in this clip is seen as inappropriate...

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