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Number Of Shots In Selected Scene

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Number of Shots in Selected Scene: There are four shots in this selected scene. The first one is a close-up shot to show Eliza’s face in frustration with her speaking lessons. The second shot is the long shot which is used for showing all the servants work.The third shot is the medium shot which is used to show Professor Higgins eating and drinking tea while the servants sing that “he doesn’t eat.” The fourth shot is over the shoulder with the camera placed above Eliza’s shoulder showing Higgins giving Eliza marbles in her mouth in order to learn how to talk “properly.” The camera is pointed to see Eliza’s face in shock and going back and forth to see Higgins’s calm face.This scene ends with a close-up shot of Eliza’s face in discomfort. …show more content…

Eliza tries again. Higgins can’t hear what Eliza is saying because Pickering is talking over her. Eliza accidentally swallows a marble and tells Higgins but he responds with “it doesn’t matter, I got plenty of more… open your mouth.” He then counts more marbles he puts it into her mouth. Higgins finds it necessary for her to learn how to speak this tortuous way. Transitions (cut): 1 cut from Eliza reading her paper. 1 cut to the fire burning up the paper. 1 cut to Eliza’s face continuing reading. 1 cut to the servants cleaning the room to the entrance of his house.1 cut from the servants working to Higgins eating and drinking a cup of tea. 1 cut to Higgins’s back turned on Eliza as he speaks to Pickering (all we see is Higgins’s back and Pickering’s face). 1 cut to Eliza and Higgins. 1 cut to Pickering. 1 cut to Eliza and Higgins. 1 cut to Eliza’s disappointed face, 1 cut to pickering’s face. 1 cut to Eliza and Higgins. 1 cut to Higgins and his bird. 1 cut to Eliza’s animal like behavior. 1 cut to Higgins and his bird, 1 cut to Eliza, 1 cut to Higgins’s servants working, 1 cut to one of Higgins’s servants going up the stairs, 1 cut of two of

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