Quantico, Simon Finds Out the Truth About the Twins - Joshua Safran and Mark Gordon (2015) - Filmic Analysis

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[...] In some places the light appears dark with dark colors dominating (when Simon and the twins are shown, and a little bit in the FBI office), and in other brightness is dominating (like the scene of Alex and Ryan). As regards the sound, discussions between characters are well understood, but there is an extra-diegetic music during the scene. We can also distinguish phone rings as extra-diegetic sound at the FBI office. As we have already mentioned, this artwork was meant to be mysteries, dramatic and terrorism related at the same time. [...]

[...] This work was continued during three seasons, each episode is related to its previous and follow one, until the story was ended. It would be important to watch the hole series in order to understand the story and better understand the scene we have here. In this specific scene, colors and frame used perfectly match the importance of the situation and the event (darkness when Simon hits his head for example). To conclude, the scene here is taken from a famous series which made a great success between the audience. [...]

[...] Quantico, Simon Finds Out the Truth About the Twins - Joshua Safran and Mark Gordon (2015) - Filmic Analysis The scene we have here is taken from an American TV show called "Quantico". The first season of this "terrorism drama thriller" series premiered on September 2015 in the United States, and its last season (third one) concluded in august 2018. The creator of this TV show, Joshua Safran, wanted to do a political thriller theme about the New York Police Department after the September 11 attacks, so the series was influenced by a historical terroristic event. [...]

[...] Now that we described the details of the scene, we will focus on the staging. We will talk first about the frame; all parts of this scene are including in the field, we would have a feeling that we have an out field part when we watch Alex and Ryan discussing but then the camera will show us their computer screen so that we know what they are talking about. About the shot scale, the scene represents several shots; at the beginning in the part where Simon gets in the room and find the twins, we have a close-up shot which allows us to see characters from there top half, the camera follows the actors during the scene and the shot changes during this same moment of the scene as we can see a medium shot where Simon is close to the room door and we see him from bottom to top. [...]

[...] Then in the second part we will study the staging which includes the frame, the light and the sound in the scene. Next, we will do a full analysis of this artwork. This Quantico's scene which lasts one minute and twenty-five seconds (1:25 minute) was held at the 6th episode of the first season. It represented the present in 2015. We can see a natural daylight from windows, so the scene present events happening during the day, it starts in a room then moves between a place like a private desk and the FBI office and at the end happens in a room as well. [...]