Whip Pan Shot

This is a whip pan shot. This is generally a pannning shot although is carried at a much quicker pace so the camera haistily travels from one thing to another, and does not cut. It allows for focus, of the audience, to be thrust directly from one subject to another without it being lost. This creates a sense of importance about the second subject as it usually allows for characters who have a greater importance to the film. This can help when portraying strong emotions, strong persona's as well as showing that certain things have a greater relevance than what appears.

Panning Shot

This is a panning shot. This means that the camera pans across a scene in order to portray the entire location to the audience. Also as to give the audience knowledge of the location. This shot rotates half way around the beach scene as, in this case, to show the calming and relaxing qualities of the scene as well as to show the surenity of the location. This is done in order to give the audience an inisght into the scene, and make them feel as though they are actually there as it allows for the audience to see more than just a single frame or portion of the scene. This may improve their overall understanding and view of the shot/scene as they find they have a greater understanding and so a greater level of appreciation can be presented. The panning shot is also used in this case as to prove the beauty of the landscape.

Tracking Shot

This is a tracking shot from Kill Bill. In this sequence rather haisty movements of the camera create a quick paced scene, allowing us to see that alot is going on in the location. In this sequence, unlike many other tracking shots, the camera follows a majority of people. This means that it differs from others of its kind and just as we receive a little insight into the lives and persona's of the people which the camera follows and begin to understand them, the camera moves onto a new target and tracks them until the same point. This happens again and again. This stops us from making judgements on most of the characters, especially if we are not tracking them for long, as we soon forget our views on previous characters as wee are now far too preoccupied with the new charcters and what they are "up to" in the scene.

Sherlock Holmes: The Film

The 2009 Sherlock Holmes film is an action/mystery film based on the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In the Sherlock Holmes film, Robert Downey Junior brings the great detective a fresh breath of life and some what modernises the "Sherlock Holmes" that we all typically know and love. Jude Law stars as Watson, the trusted companion. Rachel McAdams stars as the only woman who has ever "bested" Holmes, Irene Adler, who has managed to maintain a "loving" and exceptionally long distance relationship with him.

This film was directed by the British film maker Guy Ritchie. He has also directed: RocknRolla, Revolver, Swept Away, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He has also produced films, written screenplay and has participated in casting.

In this film the themes of voodoo and black magic are used to enhance the feeling of the era that it is set in as well as to enhance the already unique power of character Holmes has. It also shows us of the ignorance of things such as magic in those times and we see Holmes discover rational explanations for everything and wonder why others of that time could not see the same.