Knowing Cinematography in Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Pride and Prejudice is one of classic-romance films directed by Joe Wright in 2005. It is adapted from a classic novel with the same title by Jane Austen. Before I continue to explain more detail, I would to highlight that this film contains some of moral values I can take. First, there is ‘from enemies being to lovers’. Sometimes, we truly hate something until we forget that the essence of hating is admiring. Second, ‘love is love; it will not affect your social level’. But, unfortunately, this film displays how forbidden love when you fall in love with someone in different social class. Third, ‘don't judge something just from a prejudice easily’. Maybe, what looks bad in your eyes is a hidden goodness you never know.

This story begins with Darcy’s pride and Elizabeth’s prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet or Lizzie got her bad first impression to Mr. Darcy in a dance party. In Lizzie’s prejudice, Darcy is an arrogant noble with poor social skills. As time progressed, Lizzie's hatred grew more and more when she knew that Darcy was a person who provoked Charles Bingley to leave her sister, Jane. But, this is just Lizzie’s prejudice. She didn’t know why Darcy did that. In a nutshell, after Darcy proposed to Lizzie and was rejected by her, he left leaving a letter: the reason why he separated Jane and Bingley and the reason why he didn’t want to know about Mr. Wickham.

In this Pride and Prejudice (2005) there are some aspects of cinematography. But, I just take the camera shot. One of type shots in cinematography is close up. In general, the camera come closer shot the character. Thus, the viewer feels the meaning deeper. Brown (2011) stated close up is one of the most important shots in the vocabulary, the terminology for close up includes Medium CU, Choker, Big head CU, and ECU (p. 21). In this Pride and Prejudice (2005), there are some variations of close up:

1.      Close-up or head and shoulder. It is called head and shoulder if the shot is cut just above the shirt pocket area (Brown, 2011: 21).

2.  Medium. It also called a clean single, whenever it’s a shot of one actor alone. Also, it isn’t shot any piece of the other actor (Brown: 2011: 21).

3.     Two shot. Any shot of two people is two shot (Brown, 2011: 22).

4.      Over the shoulder. Over the shoulder or OTS is a shot which is over the shoulder of one actor to the other actor (Brown, 2011: 23).

REFERENCES

Brown, B. (2012). Cinematography Theory and Practice: Imagemaking for Cinematographers & Directors. Routledge.