Charlie St. Cloud

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Based on the Ben Sherwood novel, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud, is a story of two brothers who go against their mother’s word and decide to drive somewhere late one night while she is working, but they never make it to their destination. It all happens so fast as the scenes of the collision cut into different camera angles to build the intensity for the audience-flashes of light and the loud horns of the oncoming semi-truck build up the intensity of the accident. In slow motion, the light gets brighter until the screen is white. After witnessing the apparent collision, the scene suddenly goes black and slowly the camera starts to pan over the wet concrete to reveal the aftermath of what had happened. A rollover from Charlie …show more content…

The camera immediately shifts to highkey, flat lighting as the paramedic desperately tries to revive Charlie. Once he is successful, Charlie begins to agonize over the realization of his little brother’s death. The same day of the accident, Charlie and Sam had conducted a deal of meeting everyday to practice playing baseball in the same spot behind the cemetery at sunset when the sunset cannons shoot off in their maritime town. From the day of his brother’s funeral, he ran off to meet with him as promised; everyday at sunset Charlie would run to the same spot to meet the “ghost” of his brother Sam to play catch with a baseball. The camera slowly pans in the direction the he is running. Here, the videographer decides to shoot with a long lens as well. As Charlie is running through the forest, the sun is setting. They use bright, but soft, backlighting amongst the trees in the forest to produce an organic sunset lighting that is shining brightly through the tree branches. Scenes are often framed in the traditional Rule of Thirds fashion. When Charlie greets Sam in ghost form for the first time, there are trees in the middle, Sam revealed on the left of the screen and Charlie posted on the right of the screen, with the sunset organic lighting accompanying the scene in the

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