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That 70s Show     The epsiode opens with a cartoon fairy tale book opening to two of the characters Donnna and Eric in the center of the frame. The fairy tale book demonstrates that the scene that is about to take place is not realisitic and not part of the actual story line. By placing the two characters in the center of the frame it makes the viewer completely focus on them. This scene provides frontality because the  charcaters are facong directly towards the camera.         The lighting trhoughout the first scene is low-key making it difficuly to see anything really besides the characters. There is a lot of fog and the scene is dark. The darkness is to represent the dismay between the characters and to reoresent what their personal relationship is going through. The epsiode goes back and forth between the fictional, fairy tale part and the actaul story line. In the actual story line, the lighting is very high-key to the point where there are no...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5AzGw4a88 In our first clip, Shea and I used two different songs to show  the contrast between the two scenes. In our second clip we used a voiceover to show the type pf converstaion taht could have been going on between the caracters in that scene. In our third clip we used music again to show the intensity of the scene. In our fourth clip we kept the orginal sound because we felt that in order to understand the scene it would need to be kept. In our final clip we used two different pieces of music.

This scence in the television show Friends , shows parallelism. Two of the characters are in one room of the house arguing while the other four are locked in another room listening. The scene goes back and forth between the two shots to show that it is happening at the same time. The feeling that this evokes from the viewer is that the arguement is important because the other characters are interested and intently listening.