In order to make this blog, I extracted shots from Season 2:
Episode 9 from the popular television series, “Shameless”.
The first shot that I picked out from the episode was an
over the shoulder shot, this shot resulted from an emotional scene in the show
where the daughter Fiona Gallagher is looking back to her mother Monica
Gallagher. We are viewing Monica from a couple feet behind the perspective of
her daughter Fiona, who has her head turned around her shoulder and is facing
her mother. This was an emotional moment because it showed Fiona looking back
upon her mother even though she was avoiding eye contact and did not want to
look at her mother’s face due to a harsh relationship between the two. Monica,
the mother, abandoned her family a few years back and had returned to her past
household in this scene. Fiona who is the oldest child, had to drop out of high
school in order to take care of her 5 younger siblings with minimal help from
her alcoholic father named Frank. Monica is attempting to win back the heart of
her oldest daughter in order to once again become accepted by her own children,
who now obey Fiona. This camera angle helps depict the feelings of how they
both are feeling, and is touching because it is apparent that Fiona wants to
accept her mom but does not want to get hurt once again.
This shot is an example of a two shot, where Phillip
Gallagher is speaking with a professor that he knows through a series of
unfortunate events, but has grown to be close to. Phillip paid this professor a
visit and they are seen here having a conversation on the campus from the
distance of a close shot. This scene was enraging to me due to the current
situation that Phillip is in and how he is asking around for support even as he
is making a terrible decision in his life. Phillip’s girlfriend, Karen got
pregnant and Phillip chose to dropout of his senior year in high school in
order to help his girlfriend. He is a true genius and has so many people that
have high expectations of him, but he chose to drop out leaving him no chance
of a bright future. He is asking the professor for a job, but his request is
instantly declined because he had not yet received his high school diploma. His
girlfriend is still in high school and has not dropped out, so it is proven that
Phillip has on option to stay in school so he can eventually get a better job
in order to support his baby, but he chooses to take an unfortunate situation
and turn it into an even worse one. This camera angle was able to express to me
the importance of this conversation, which is that nobody is willing to help
Phillip if he isn’t willing to help himself first.
This final shot is an example of a long shot. Karen is seen
here approaching the house of a man that she had been with in the past; this
scene upsets me because it shows her taking a turn for the worse. The reason
she is going to his house is in order to lie to him and tell him that the baby
belongs to him, and that she will need money in order to support it. He quickly
hands her all of the money he can find but is in a rush because his wife is in
the house and she is not aware of his situation. This shot is able to set the
tone of the situation because it shows Karen waltzing into a peaceful
environment, just to drop a bomb on somebody in order to use them and take
their money, which is the only positive aspect she sees in having a child. It
is visible that there are toys outside belonging to children, and the long shot
is able to help capture the subject’s surroundings and furthermore the specific
details that add to the scene.
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