Xiao War

5-shots sequence 

1. Extreme Close-up (ECU)

Extreme close-up shot: a more intense version of the close-up, usually showing only the subject’s eyes or another part of their face. Insert shot: a close-up that focuses on a specific object, prop, or detail, signaling to the audience that it’s important.

(The good, the bad, and the ugly)

Example: In the movie, The good, the bad, and the ugly, the picture below, shows one of the main characters extreme close up of his pair of eyes, as you can see, from only his eyes, the tensity from how he frowns and his wrinkles shows that he is nervous and emotional at the same time.

2. Close-up (CU)

A Close-up is a shot taken at close range. Which frames the portrait his/her emotion or focuses on an object to deliver information. The close-up shot contains a range of different shot sizes such as from a character’s shoulder to head.

(Tom Holland, No way home scene)

Example: expresses the character’s emotion, you can see his facial expressions and only his head and part of his shoulders.

3. Medium Shot (MS)

Medium close-up shot: halfway between a medium shot and a close-up shot, capturing the subject from the waist up. Close-up shot: frames the head, neck, and sometimes the shoulders of the subject. Medium shots can also be shots from knee to head.

(Princess Diary)

(Wonder woman)

4. Point of View – OTS (Over the shoulder)

Over-the-Shoulder Shot: In the film, a shot that gives us a character’s point of view but that includes part of that character’s shoulder or the side of the head in the shot.

(Harry Potter)

Example: Shot filmed from over the shoulder of Voldemort into Harry’s face, You can only see the facial expressions of the character looking madly at him.

5. Interesting shot

An interesting shot should be interesting and unique, therefore there are no limits to it. The shot can be shot from any unique angle, such as a shot from inside the water bottle or from a point of view of an eye, object, or even shot from the reflection from a pair of glasses.

Example: This shot is taken from a luggage’s point of view, you can see the man opening and grabbing things from the outside. Therefore the shot is unique and interesting for the audience.

“A Room Away From the Wolfs” is a young adult fiction written by Nova Ren Suma. In the first chapter, there is a suspenseful hook where the main character describes how she saw a girl jumping out of the window and escaping for some unknown reason. The whole setting was graceful though the plot is full of suspiciousness and weirdness because of how things happen so quickly. I didn’t really understand the book and had lots of questions when reading it since it jumps around a lot so I was kind of clueless when I read this book. It starts with Bina the main character being kicked out of her house by her mother, who trusts her new husband and his daughters over her own daughter. Then Bina ran to New York City to look for Catherine’s house, I didn’t catch who Catherine was but, throughout the book, there are lots of flashbacks, magical realism aspects, and dropped clues.

 

 

The book “And I Darken” by Kiersten White is a fantasy fiction, historical retailing about a girl named Vlad Dracula. The book cover is dark and in the middle is a sword with a flower being bisected into two parts by the sword. The text type of the fonts on the cover is big and catchy.

 

 

 

 

“Room” by Emma Donoghue is the book I’ve choose to write about for my essay. I was drawn into the books cover for the first sight. It has a delightful light blue cover and on the blue layer is a white window shaping like a house’s window. What attracted my attention was the word “Room” painted in red bolded font. The book Is not to big nor small, just an averaged sized book that is perfect for high schoolers. The book “Room” tells a story from the five years old Jack’s perspective, the story sets a suspenseful tone because the beginning of the first chapter the sentence starts with “Today, I’m five.” This sentence drags my attention into the book and led me keep reading it because I wanted to know what happened next and made me think if the main character is only five years old, what happened to him, why is the author writing in a kid’s point of view? This book’s plot is connected with another book called Narnia because in the first chapter of the book, it mentioned how the main character itself said that he is sleeping in the wardrobe. Where in Narnia, it has a plot of the main characters sleeping in the wardrobe and transforming into another world called Narnia.

I have read two books “A room away from the wolfs” by Nova Ren Suma and “The red queen” by Victoria Aveyard. The two books are fiction books. I really enjoyed reading these two books and what really interested me while reading both of their intro chapter. Throughout the book, A room away from the wolfs, There are lots of suspense and cliffhangers towards the end of each chapter. The first chapter of A room away from the wolfs really drives me inside the story stopping at a hook at the end of the chapter. While In the red queen, I really liked the specific descriptions of explaining what was happening as if I were one of the characters and makes me feel the same when during the center mid of the book explaining the difference between the red and silvers and their unequal treaties make me feel unfair.

 

The title of my book is called A Room Away From The Wolves by Nova Ren Suma, it is a Mystery fiction book.

My favorite character in the story is the main character, though I do not know his name (So I’m going to call him the boy for now).

The author did not mention anyone’s name. In the first section of my book, the author mostly described what happened. It started with the main character, as the narrator, from his perspective.

The book started with a setting where a girl lives in a room below the boy. (the main character) Then she disappeared into the darkness. She jumped out of the window and crashed to the ground. The neighbors all went out to see what happened, and someone sobs when they see her. People called the ambulance but there was no sign of the girl breathing, and that is where I ended.