Interesting Use of Camera Movement Video from Dances with Wolves (1990)

                                       

        An interesting use of camera movement I found within a movie scene was from the movie titled Dances with Wolves (1990).  I chose the scene where First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar is riding his horse with some of Sioux tribe members  as they try to capture buffalo on the Great Plains.

       This scene begins with an extreme wide shot to establish the scene environment of the Great Plains. The camera then changes its shot to a very wide shot. This very wide shot shows the distant figure of First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar surround by the buffalo he is trying to hunt along with several of the Sioux on horseback.

        The camera shot abruptly changes and focuses in only on Lieutenant Dunbar with a medium close up shot of him riding  but then the camera shot briefly changes to a cutaway shot showing the buffalo. The camera shot transitions again now focusing in on both Lieutenant Dunbar and the buffalo before it goes back to an extreme wide shot of the Great Plains and the buffalo running away.
  
       While the buffalo run away the camera shot becomes a very wide shot but instead of focusing on only Lieutenant Dunbar the camera alternates between a Sioux man on horseback and Dunbar. After this happens the camera shots tend to go back and forth between very wide shots of the buffalo and mid shots of the Lieutenant Dunbar and Sioux buffalo hunters.
  
     Overall, I enjoyed watching this movie scene from Dances with Wolves (1990) because it had a variety of camera shots in such a short amount of time. In addition from watching the video clip multiple times I am more aware of the different camera shots used within a movie scene.


Further Reading:
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