Analysis of Vikings

In todays article I am going to analyse Vikings: 5x10

What is Vikings?

Vikings is a historical drama television series written and created by Michael Hirst for the Historry channel. Filmed in Ireland, it premierd on March 3, 2013 in Canada.

Camera shots and angles

(1) The first shot of the scene takes part in a village and is a close up (a certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame).

(2) After that we have a over-the-shoulder shot (used when shooting conversation between two people, skeaker´s full face is shown while camera is aimed over the shoulder of the listener) between Ubee and Hvitserk.

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Camera movement

(1) The first and the last camera movement that we have is a pan (horizontal movement, left to right) of Ubbe, from the minute (0:17 to 0:19) and is also a over-the-shoulder shot.

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Editing tecniques

(1) The unique editing technique that we appears in the cut scene is shot/reverse shot and shows the dialogue that Ubee and Hvitserk have. The shot/reverse shot starts in the minute (1) 0:17 and finish in the minute (2) 0:43

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