MISSING ARM

The purpose of this shot is to sum up the complete surrealism of the scene and what the soldiers are going through. A Soldier looks for his missing arm on the ground quite calmly and then picks it up and runs off as though it is quite normal. The placement of this shot is clever as you have just come from pity for the young soldier cowering to horror at the men bursting into flames and now we have moved to a mixture of horror, disbelief and bemusement. All within a minute.


Photograph 28

The composition of this shot is interesting as the camera feels almost hidden behind the metal beam, continuing the illusion that we are watching from Capitan Millers point of view. The following of the soldier is similar to how we could have reacted to watching the same moment. The camera pans with the man as he wanders back and forth past his fellow soldiers. As he runs off, the camera moves with him.


Photograph 29

The shot has been done using the steady cam with the image shaker going off at several points. The framing is a long shot with almost the full length of the soldier’s body in shot. He is kept to the left of frame throughout then runs toward the right of frame. Once more we follow the rule of thirds with the soldier being kept in the left vertical almost throughout.