Blog 4: Editing Anaylsis

Jamilla Schuster
5/12/14
Media 160
Laura                          



                                            Blog 4:  Relationships between Shots

     The piece I chose to analyze was a comedic skit called “Post Apocalyptic Hunt from the Comedy Central sitcom “Key and Peele.” The skit stars off with the main character Peele walking around an abandoned street after the word has ended. There are a few slow dissolve in the beginning of the clip, one from a close up of his legs, in which the camera then dissolved to a medium shot of his face and then to a desecrated stroller in the middle of the street. A slow traditional Hindustani song is playing in the background to give off a deserted “eerie” feeling for the skit. After the stroller, the camera pans upward and an extreme long shot is created, showing the entire scenery in the background. The many dissolves, the slow music and the characters slow lifeless walk give off the idea the idea that the world has ended and that he may just be the only other person left on the earth. And the close up tilt where the “solider” is sharpening his knife definitely give off the effect that he’s going to kick some serious butt if some new age post-apocalyptic zombies try to come for him.

     Then you get the good stuff. In mid skit the solider hears the voice of another person and he gets excited and decided to take a closer look as to where the noise is coming.  The guy he sees looks completely bizarre and like someone you would put in a crazy house. He has on tighty-whitey, drives up on a mo-ped, grabs a handful of Cheetos, has a clown wig on and starts jamming to some old school 70’s music while he’s sexually molesting a manikin. As this point in the skit the shots start to get a lot shorter to and faster to show the light-hearted and funny persona that the second character portrays, as opposed to the slow, dishearten, somber mood of the lonely, serious solider.

The shots within the skit originally go from long and slow to shot and fast passed as the scene switched between the two charters. The slow Hindustani tala represents the soldier’s loneliness, while the upbeat 70’s music shows that character is trying to be a bit more positive about being alone in the world. The colors are originally blue and cold as the scene begins and is then met with the brightly colored wig, and mo-ped and décor to show a warmer part of the scene behind character two. The order of the shots go from slow and long to fast a short to once again long and slow after character one decides he has no interest of being friends with character two and gives him a good quick shot to the head.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVX8wm_CONM