Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Shot-by-shot breakdown of the 12 Angry Men trailer...

Shot-by-shot breakdown of the 12 Angry Men trailer...

0-3s: Group shot, 10 yelling at the group

3-7s: Medium shot, 4 stabbing the table, dolly-shot towards knife, pan downwards.

7-14s: closeup of 8 in back of knife, rack focus to knife, 8 stabs second knife into table.

14s-16: closeup rack shot from 4 to 3 standing in back of him, reacting to second knife.

16-43s: Begin by over the shoulder shot of 8, looking at group.  Dolly towards 3 who walks up to 8 and closeup of both, demonstrating knife angle.  Rack focus from 3 and 8, to group, back to 3 and 8.

43 - 56s:Slow pan down from sky, landscape of outside of courthouse.

56s - 58s: Medium shot of 8 and group.  8 says what he thinks happened.

58s - 1:00: Medium of 3 and group.  3 asks how the old witness can be positive about anything.

1:00 - 1:05: Closeup of 10 talking about how people are bringing up picky little points that mean nothing.

1:05 - 1:22: Closeup and top-down angle of jurors hands on table, passing back secret ballots.  Voiceover of judge from beginning, followed by voiceover of narrator telling viewer to pay attention, because one day, you may be one of them.

1:22 - 1:27: Medium of 8 talking to 4, with group behind.  Voiceover of narrator saying how the have the smell of violent death in their nostrils.

1:27 - 1:29: Medium of 8 with group behind, listening to 3's rant at the end of Act 1.

1:29 - 1:32: Closeup of 3 continuing rant

1:32 - 1:35: Closeup of 8 with three jurors behind asking 3 if he is the executioner

1:35 - 1:37: Extreme closeup of 3 saying "you got it"

1:37 - 1:39: Extreme closeup of 8 saying 3 is a self-appointed public avenger

1:39 - 1:43: Extreme closeup of 3's face, quivering eyebrow as 8 calls him a sadist off-camera

1:43 - 1:48: Over the shoulder of 8, Medium of 3 lunging towards 8 saying "I'll kill him" as held back by 5 and 6

1:48 - 1:50: Closeup of 8, 3, 9, and 12 standing in judgement of the last line, as 3 continues off-camera.  Voiceover of narrator talking about the men turning into animals.

1:50 - 1:57: Pan right, medium shot as 8 grabs tic-tac-toe sheet from 12 and 3.

1:57 - 2:15 (end) Pan up of landscape outer courtroom towards sky.  Dramatic music.