TPO 09 - Question 4
The Establishing Shot
Film directors use different types of camera shots for specific purposes. An establishing shot is an image shown briefly at the beginning of a scene, usually taken from far away, that is used to provide context for the rest of the scene. One purpose of the establishing shot is to communicate background information to the viewer, such as the setting—where and when the rest of the scene will occur. It also establishes the mood or feeling of the scene. Due to the context that the establishing shot provides, the characters and events that are shown next are better understood by the viewer.
1. So, the other day I went to this great new movie and one of the scenes in particular I thought was really set up nicely.
2. At the start of the scene, before the action and talking and things started, you saw, on the movie screen, an image of a city.
3. You could tell it was a big city.
4. There were lots of buildings, tall ones, skyscrapers.
5. And the cars and signs on the city streets looked old-fashioned, like they were from the past, like the 1940s.
6. The other thing I noticed right away from this first image, just when the scene started, was that the city seemed gloomy.
7. You couldn't see much because it was, well, there was mostly darkness rather than sunlight.
8. And there was only just a little bit of light from the street lamps.
9. On top of that, it was raining, and kind of foggy.
10. All of these details worked together to create a dark, gloomy, mysterious feeling.
11. So then when the action started, and it showed detectives talking to each other in an office, I already knew that the office was located in a tall building in a big city sometime in the 1940s.
12. And I had a good idea that the events that would be taking place would be pretty dark and mysterious because of the shot, the image I saw at the beginning of the scene.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 687.0 592.248995984 116% => OK
No of words: 174.0 155.574297189 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.94827586207 3.80514564318 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.63192868298 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.96014086222 1.79077849142 109% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7148594378 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586206896552 0.604071249207 97% => OK
Syllable count: 220.5 185.844578313 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0670529035748 0.0650381309087 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 43.5 68.503853103 64% => OK
STD paragraph length: 30.6063718856 21.3332995233 143% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.5025 25.9943957902 56% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.72905024913 7.84667146824 124% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 42.0642570281 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.24390243902 4.02192344571 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.18365097827 3.1217529195 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.28219512195 1.45093177766 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.763705703103 0.99851816184 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 44.0 39.0421686747 113% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.3 7.12997991968 158% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.256818181818 0.185688545393 138% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.214547862082 0.155154303396 138% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.19 47.1480722892 87% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.236724137931 0.305395592593 78% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.127180583863 0.189427763521 67% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.94979919679 38% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.07 6.2937751004 33% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.28 3.39508032129 97% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.01 59.7592369478 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.966833333333 0.995987282463 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.758489915532 0.656000678711 116% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.99948284778 2.60215298798 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75831753146 1.56821927147 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.47632920612 1.99336655568 124% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.243856137931 0.317803793328 77% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.