Context – What’s Happening?

Joker crashes the party

Overall Tone / Mood

Highly intense

Director Intentions

Topics / Focus

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What meaning (impact) is made about the nature of (characters, events, places...)

Significance to the whole film?

Lighting

The lighting isn’t high key or low key but more in the middle. The light is coming from the top of him which sometimes causes his eyes to be fully black and unseen.

Gives a naturalistic view of the event.

Jokers stability is one of the key focuses

Movement

The camera follows his actions and is kind of shaky as if it's someone's point of view.

With batman the camera does follow him however is smoother with its movements until he is the room with batman.

When attacking rachel the camera spins around them as we are jokers thoughts going around him.

More focus is given on the jokers actions. The shakiness shows how unstable the joker's mind set is. It also makes the scene feel personal as if you are in the scene with him.

Distance & Angle

With the joker the camera appears to be quite close to him and at just a bit lower than eye level at first.

When attacking people the camera goes to a close up with a low angle of the joker.

Creates a personal view of the joker as if we were seeing things in his eyes.

The low angle shows that he is superior in that moment.

Composition

Joker stays in the middle of the shot in the beginning of the film but later on when attacking rachel is is on the left or right of the film.

He has a shallow depth of field.

All of these create the idea that he’s the most important one there and causes the audience to watch all of action carefully.