John Q Monologue

If you didn’t have an option then you wouldn’t be left with no choice.

That’s what happened to John Q as he is forced to do the unimaginable.

In my scenes I will be talking to you about Lighting,Sound,camera angles, and more.

In that we will talk about how he did that and why he did it that way.

In the first minute of my scene there is some beautiful angelic music that in 20 seconds gets louder and then slowly gets brighter and clearer. But when we are reaching thirty, the scene is fully lit and bright and we see the countryside. As we drive by beautiful green hills,mountains and trees on a what seems completely calm day. The director uses an extreme long shot to set the scene for the character we’re about to see is. Then he pans at about 33 seconds all the way to 40 seconds.

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In the second minute of my scene we see her drive past a car, as she drives around the corner, we get a close shot of what she looks like. We can’t see all of her, which makes her seem as if she has something to hide. We see a beautiful, crystal, christian,cross necklace, her hair, earrings, red lipstick with a beautiful white dress. but we couldn’t see all of her, her eyes were still covered by the rear view mirror. Then finally, at 1 minute and 25 seconds, she tries to pass

a car in front of her so she goes into the right lane. But as she does, a car comes straight at her and she narrowly gets out of the way in front of the car. Then the car beeps as if to say “come on watch it” and at that time the music stops and changes to only violin at 1 minute and 28. Then as she continues we see at 1 minute and 37 seconds that she’s behind a semi-truck and at 1 minute and 46 seconds the music turns back to the opera that we in the first 20 seconds to 1 minute and 28 seconds. Then after that we finally see more at 1 minute and 40 seconds where we get a long shot of her and the inside of her car but still her eyes are covered by the rearview mirror. After that at 1minute and 42 seconds she honks her horn in annoyance as she is running out of patience and looks to see if any cars are coming in the left lane and not seeing any cars begins to go onto the left lane. And finally she begins to drive past the car and as she drives past the car then at 1 minute and 58 seconds we see a extreme long shot of another truck far away heading towards her on the left lane with her still not past the truck on the right lane with a sort of behind the truck driver view that we see as the driver makes the bend. Causing us to see the back of the truck is red which who knows may represent something. Also the red truck from far away is on a low angle while she is on a high angle.

Then finally at 2 minutes and 5 second we start seeing the truck and the unknown girl become closer as they are driving.

And at 2 minutes and 10 seconds she tries to go in front of the truck but at 2:14 as she realizes she can’t get past and she swerves the truck hits her bumper. And she turns right in front of the car she was trying to pass as the audience sees at 2:20 and the fear of oh no she’s going to get hit. Boom at 2:26 she gets hit as she sits awestruck staring at the truck of incoming doom and as she gets hit the music stops. Then we see at 2:29 what she sees and at 2:35 see the car as the car rolls into the ditch. And as the scene rolls out we hear a quiet angelic "hawwwww" sound as the scene turns

black.

Finally In conclusion In my scenes I talked to you about Lighting,Sound,camera angles, and more. And how he did that and why he did it that way. How the music affected the mood with sound,instruments,and voice. I also talked to you about how the high vs. low angles and the setting of the movie changes everything. This scene is important because it makes you think not only about all of the different cinematic elements but causes you to feel things you would not normally feel without the director’s choices. So the next time you watch a movie take a look because who knows it might surprise you.