Hotel Chevalier

*This is a makeup blog for what I missed from last week, the shot by shot list. The film is a short from Wes Anderson, which is sort of prequel to The Darjeeling Limited.

• 1st scene opens with a wide shot, establishes interior lobby of a hotel. High key, low contrast. Wide angle lens. All of the following is at eye level unless otherwise stated and has a deep depth of field:
• Wide, interior of a hotel room, character’s feet to the right of the frame.
• Wide, main character to the left of the frame, sitting on a bed.
• Close up, main character answers the phone, he’s to the right of the frame. Shallow depth of field.
• Wide shot, main character picks up clothes, he’s in the middle of the frame.
• Wide, interior of the bathroom, camera is in the bedroom however. This also shows a frame within a frame because we’re just a few feet outside the doorway which narrows our point of focus.
• Medium close up, interior of the bathroom. Character in front of mirror, camera as the mirror.
• Wide, back into the hotel bedroom as the character walks out of the bathroom and continues to clean. Low angle.
• Wide, another portion of the room.
• Med, as character walks across the screen from left to right but it goes into a close up as he kneels down and puts music on.
• Back to Wide as he rushes into the bathroom.
• Med wide shot? Character is to the left of the frame very low so it’s from his elbows up. This is a high angle shot. Although we don’t see much of the character we still see quite a bit of the space around him.
• Main character gets up and exits the frame, camera dollies to him at the dresser adjusting the music again. Med shot. He opens the door and this introduces a new character.

I’d say the framing in this film is pretty loose. There are a lot of wide shots and it being a Wes Anderson film he loves a dollies and pans.

~Brianna P.