#screenshot analysis

[oatmealdoodles]

Guys guess who went to see Project Hail Mary again last week! (mmeeeeeeeeee!!)

and seeing this movie a second time has got me to realize OH MY GOD the cinematography is absolutely BEAUTIFULL!!!!!!! Like you can TELL the directors were the same guys behind Spiderverse, their bold & extravagant filmmaking shines through even in live action. Brooooo right from when the movie begins every shot is so immaculately composed, the colors are SO vivid, the framing of focal points is beautiful and subtle, the way they play with light and shadow to hide things from the audience, it’s amazing it’s so amazing.

I can’t wait for this movie to come out on streaming so I can obsess and dissect every frame of it, but for now I only have the images they put on IMDB to work with :’(. Out of the ones I found here are some of the shots that made me believe in the magic of cinematography:

P.S. I took one (1) photography class in high school im no an expert by any means I just like art and good cinematography is like one of my weaknesses in movies

Ok like this is what i’m talking about when I say framing. Just a bunch of heads all peeking out and being framed from a hole in the center with darkness surrounding them leading your attention to one concentrated point. This isn’t even an important scene or anything but when I saw it in the theater I had to pause its so good.

Look at the colors! The contrast! Look at Grace being such a vivid orange and the background a cold teal so he just pops out.

This is one thing I noticed on rewatch, that this movie is just so ORANGE. Usually when you think of space you think of cold, dark, emptiness, aka cool colors. But in a movie thats all about hope, that human beings are fundamentally good and interspecies friendship can save the world, space is depicted with so many warm colors. Hell, Rocky and the Blip A are made of almost exclusively warm tones and browns. I just think thats neat.

I also LOOOOOVE all the spiny shots in this movie. They’re almost always used to transition in-and-out of the two time periods and I just think its such a neat way to do that. (btw the fact that the story is told through two concurrent timelines, one flashbacks and one present, untill you’re caught up to right before the mission with the final big twist is just so cool. Like that was also in the book but seeing it in movie form just hits yk? Ok now back to cinematography) To me it’s almost like the camera is “re-focusing” on its subject without actually using the fade in-fade out meathod, which is a tad overdone. This is such a fresh way to accomplish the same thing while also looking sick as fuck ngl.

I love it whenever they show the characters through the metal mesh of the ship. I don’t know if that was an artistic choice or a result of them having almost entirely practical sets, but its still a supper cool little flare they didn’t need to add but did anyway.

I also just like this whole first scene in fact. The way they’re zipping in and out of static shots being like “framed” with the ship’s architecture, like this is just cool idk what else to say.

Ok I couldn’t find the photo I was looking for but if you’ve seen the movie you know this scene. When Grace is telling Rocky that he’s not going back to earth, he’s faced away from him, a complete silhouette. He doesn’t want to face Rocky and show how scared he is, he’s trying to keep it together for his friend. Throughout their conversation he starts slowly turning towards the light, so now you can see a rim light around him. Then when Rocky tells him he can give him the fuel to get home, Grace turns around and walks towards him into the light, and suddenly you can see that he’s crying. WHAT!!?! Brooo that’s the shit (for lack of more elegant phrasing) The way they play with light and shadow to bth represent where a character is emotionally and also hide information from us (like Grace crying) before hitting us with a gut-punch reveal is SOOO COOOL!

This shot had me shook. It had me shooken in the theater. It was cool in the book but actually seeing the explosion in the distance, no sound no fanfare no nothing, before the impact wave hits them seconds later and shakes your whole body with the booming noise, MMmmmm thats so good. You FEEL the tension and looming dread of that explosion just enough before it actually hits to make you feel sick.

No words. Just Grace lying like this. Look at him.

The entire intro is just absolutely stunning visually. The flashing blue and red lights and nothing but the haunting yet angelic choir soundtrack. Once again playin with light to hide information from the audience. All you see is flashing colored light on a body bag, you have no idea what’s going on. You slowly realize what’s happening just as Grace is waking up himself. Plus how the shot is upside-down, to show how disorientated he is. It just so cool how it grabs your attention from the very first shot, you’re sat and ready for the movie.

Love how Grace’s red suit POPS against the green Adrian light in the Astrophage fishing scene. Red and green is such an underrated and underused complimentary color scheme and it just looks so nice. How many movies bathe their environments in neon green lights like this? Its so unique and prettyyy

Ok enough people have already talked about the Petrova Line sequence and how cool it looks, but I’m more interested in the fact that they did this with practical effects. HUUH??? I need to see a behind the scenes of this shot specifically because waddu mean they did this with chicken wire? How does that work??? I want answers!! Also again, red & green contrast B]

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Ok there’s one scene that’s haunted me ever since I first went to see this movie and I can’t for the life of me find a picture but if you’ve seen the movie you know what I'm talking about. Throughout the movie Grace is doing these video logs (by the way GREAT way to translate his inner monologue and convey thoughts/information to the audience naturally thats always the hardest part of book adaptations) and he does one when the Taumoeba escape. As he’s making the decision to essentially die to turn back and save Rocky, the whole ship is a dark red, and there are parts where you’re seeing Grace through the pixels of the camera. He’s blurry and you can barely make out his face, it’s unsettling. It all just adds to how disorientated and absurd the situation is, how confused and scared he is as he tries to make his decision. GOD thats good, again it was stuck in my mind for like days after I left the theater.

anyways yeah I just thought this movie looked pretty :3

[kingpins-and-revolutions]

"Someone Just Volunteered" screenshot breakdown

Since everybody liked my last screenshot analysis of Silco, let's jump all the way back to our first glimpse at Crime Dad alongside Dr. Malpractice

The experiment's end result:

He looks like he finds it rather unpleasant, hm? Despite being a violent and ruthless man, he doesn't seem to take well to expected deaths in a closed, scientific environment.

Initial surprise at the outcome, then with his darting eyes, I'd argue horror and analysis of the information/results

He startles ever so slightly when Singed asks if he has a subject in mind, almost negligible in movement. His shoulder raise slightly, his expression slides from shocked to pensive as he considers his options.

And when he figured out the volunteer?

Ugh, that smirk!

And this is all over the course of 9 seconds!

I love this show. Also these men are horrible, and tbh good for them.

[jokerislandgirl32]

One or Both of These Cars Belong to Zach…

You Can’t Convince Me Otherwise…

Well unless they belong to his employees, but that starts a whole new discussion, lol.

[jokerislandgirl32]

Me, A Zach Fanatic, Overanalyzing Zach’s Bedroom…

So, Zach’s my F/O right, we all know this, lol. Well, I looked at the scene where we see his bedroom in Adapto Coyote again, and perhaps it is the fangirl in me, but a noticed a couple things…Find out more below the cut!

Image One: Is He Alone In Bed?

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Circle Closest to his Face: He’s holding the covers up pretty high, who’s he hiding? Probably no one, but it could be a partner. I feel he would be protective of his partner in that way, wanting to keep them warm, close to him, and keep them to himself. Ngl, I’d fit in that space, lol.

Largest Circle: Hmmm, that’s an odd looking indention in the bed, could it be a leg slung over his waist? Again, probably not, but his hip is not that far way from his legs. If someone had their leg over his waist, it would naturally fall in that area, and a bent knee could look a lot like that, in my opinion. I’d totally throw my leg over him, lol.

Oval Looking Circle: That looks more like three and a half “foot bumps” under the covers. Could the one farthest to the left be a partner’s, and the largest one to the right be his and the partner’s? The one in the middle is definitely his, but the sizes of all three “bumps” are not proportional. If he had a partner with him the smaller bump could belong to the partner, and they could have feet entwined at the larger bump. Oh to play footsy with Zachy….

Image 2: Double the Pillows

The man’s got two pillows: One for him and one for a partner. Fight me, haha. Why does he need two pillows? He’s obviously only using the right one and is only sleeping on the right side of the bed. Only explanation is the second one is for his partner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know he pulls the covers off him when he gets up to go scream at the window, but his partner could have left the bed early to start their day, make him coffee, get breakfast started, or something. Who knows!

Maybe this is far fetched, but I quite enjoy the idea of this, lol.

[arkon-z]

Okay, semi-continuation of my previous post, have a look at the background in this shot:

Kinda looks like an arena, doesn't it? Like, perhaps, the colosseum. Wild guess, but perhaps Nasty Spider Calamity Ganon from BOTW is a boss or a fight in the colosseum level.

[eclectic-spaghetti]

Second Bendy Chapter Four Teaser Analysis

So, this tweet by theMeatly teased a new screenshot for Bendy Chapter Four. About an hour ago, the screenshot was released. Let’s take a look at it and see what we can see.

Right off the bat, we can see again that the lighting looks spectacular. It looks great and all, but this is looking to be even more graphically intense than Chapter Three, which means my computer might not be able to handle it.

The next and most obvious thing we can see in this image is the ink writing. The biggest one reads ‘No Angels,’ which definitely implies that whoever wrote this (most likely Sammy Lawrence, judging by the next message), either does not like Alice Angel, or, more likely, is afraid that she will attempt to murder him for his inky heart.

The next ink writing is slightly obscured by the vent covering, but it is very plain that it reads ‘He will set us free.’ This, again, further implies that Sammy Lawrence wrote this message and will be returning for Chapter Four. Perhaps this is where he lives?

This brings to the last major object of interest in this teaser: the vent. This vent looks remarkably similar to the one Boris went through in Chapter Three, and look what’s inside it...

To me this implies that Sammy Lawrence (i.e. whoever wrote the ink writing) is using the vents to get around the studio, similar to how Boris crawled through them to open the doors for Henry. Perhaps these vents can be used to access any part of the studio? Maybe the vents were even how Sammy Lawrence escaped Bendy’s wrath in Chapter Two?

The vents might also prove to be useful for Henry as well, allowing him (if he can find a flashlight) to crawl through the vents to reach new areas of the studio, evade Bendy, and search for Boris. (The vents might also hold some secrets and Easter Eggs hidden in the blackness...)

The only other thing I can think to look at in the screenshot (besides a few crates, barrels, and wooden planks) is this lantern, which seems to be a new source of light in the chapter. This seems to further imply that we will be heading into an even darker and inkier area of the studio, and will need more powerful sources of light.

Come to think of it, I think this lantern was in the Chapter Four development trailer, too...

In addition to all that’s in the screenshot itself, there are two very interesting things in the Twitter description for the teaser.

‘On the trail of a friend’ seems to certainly imply that Henry is out to rescue Boris from Alice Angel’s clutches (as does the #SaveBoris tag).

‘It’s getting real now,’ in game terms, could mean that the danger to Henry is increasing dramatically in the chapter, or, from a development standpoint, it could mean that the chapter itself is ‘getting real,’ meaning that it is nearing completion.

So, anyway, there’s my analysis for this Bendy screenshot. It seems to all but confirm Sammy’s reappearance in the chapter, and possibly introduces a new game mechanic in the form of the vents.

*hype intensifies*

[actual-lea]

Also, in that screenshot, it looks like we’re in a closet or something, peeking out of the doorway at the mystery person. I wonder if this is another Walker broadcast, and they’re hiding from said mystery person, which is maybe who was opening the door in 5??

[actual-lea]

That screenshot reminds me of the shot from the first broadcast, with the person sitting in a chair and what looks like another person moving in the doorway?