The Departed Frame Board

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I looked at the first 3.08 minutes of The Departed, I took screen captures of the different shot types and camera angles: 

 

 

The film starts with a black screen, telling the audience

where and when the following scene is going to be set.

 

 

 The next lot of film looks like hand held footage of

first men fighting at a slight high angle eyelevel shot,

then a bus driving by at an eyelevel medium shot which

then pans, more fighting men at same shot as before, a

shot of a post box with NO spray painted on it at a medium

eyelevel shot, a girl on a bus waving at maybe slightly low

angle eyelevel shot, then a shot eyelevel medium shot of

broken glass on the bus which then zooms out to show

a line of buses outside a school, then a pan of people

protesting at an eyelevel medium shot,

then a man giving a door to door interview at a

slight close up eyelevel shot.

There's background sound of what is going on in the shots,

there's also a voiceover from about 6 second onwards, mainly

talking about the past. There is also some type of jazz music

in the background aswell, which starts at abour 28 seconds.

 

This shot has a pan to the right, while zooming in, obviously

showing us where in Boston the scene is set.

 

The next shot has a man walking and the camera panning

and zooming to the left, in some warehouse, possibly showing

us who the main character is.

 

The next shot is a zoom of the building the following scene

will be set in, a diner.

 

This is an over the shoulder shot of the man who is presumably

the man from 2 shots before and also the voiceover. It shows the

assumed main character collecting money from the shop/diner

owner, which can imply he's a type of mobster.

 

The next shot is a medium eyelevel shot of, as we see from

how the following scene plays out, another presumed main

character.

 

It then has a pan of the young waitress walking over to the older

main character, then a close up shot back to the younger character, then

back to the older character.

 

After a medium shop of the shop owner and father of the waitress, there's an

extreme close up of the young boy's face, in a shot-reverse-shot between him

and the older character as they exchange dialogue, then this shot of a medium

eyelevel of the two characters in the same shot, meeting.

 

After close up shots of food, theres this medium eyelevel shot

of the boy staring at the older character as he gives him all this

food collected for him.

 

Then lastly there's a high angle eyelevel shot of the man giving the

boy the food and a comic.

All the while there's been some background sounds layered with slight

rock music from The Rolling Stones, called Gimme Shelter.