"Alvin and the Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked"
camera movement analysis
This sequence is predominantly filmed in "shot, reverse shot"
Clip begins in a quick pan left, showing four clothed rodents, one of which is holding some sort of fruit.
The pan is immediately followed by a slower, shaky track right, showing the four rodents and then two more, making for a total of six rodents.
Cut to quick, shaky pan right of lush jungle foliage.
Cut to a long shot of the six rodents. The one with the fruit hands it to a rodent wearing a red shirt in the middle of the frame.
Cut to rodent in blue shirt and glasses pulling a green cord. The camera pans right with his movement.
Cut to shot which is reverse of the last. Now an apparently female rodent in a pink skirt is pulling an identical green cord in the opposite direction. Camera pans left with her movement.
Cut to medium shot of jungle foliage and what appears to be a human figure behind a large plant.
Cut to long shot of rodent in red holding the fruit against the green cord as a sort of sling shot. The rodents holding the cord are not in frame. The three remaining rodents are on opposite sides of the rodent in red, with fearful expressions. The rodent in red releases the fruit and stumbles backward as the fruit flies toward over the camera.
Cut to medium shot of woman emerging from foliage. As she comes into full view, the fruit strikes her on the forehead. The women puts her palm to her forehead and exclaims in pain.
Cut to high angle shot of rodents huddling together in fear. The woman's exclamations are heard in the background.
Cut back to medium shot of woman. Her hand is still on her forehead, but she is now speaking and rocking back and forth. Camera tilts and pans slightly to adjust the frame as the subject is moving.
Cut to medium group shot of rodents looking up at the woman (she is off screen at the moment).
Cut back to woman, who is beginning to calm down. She lowers her hand, puts down her bag, and begins to approach the rodents.
Cut to over-shoulder shot from behind the woman. Her left side is out of focus in the right side of the frame, and the camera tracks forward, tilts up, and cranes down to follow her steps forward. As she kneels, the rodents scurry up a rock that was behind them the whole time.
Cut to reverse shot from behind rodents. As the woman is kneeling and the rodents are climbing the rock, the camera tracks forward towards the woman (the rodents are now out of focus).
Cut to long shot of all six rodents speaking to the woman.
Cut to medium shot of woman responding to rodents.
Cut back to long shot of rodents. The rodents arrange themselves for a dance number, and the camera makes a small, shaky pan left to center the group of rodents in the frame.
Cut back to medium shot of woman watching rodents with a surprised expression.
Cut back to over the shoulder shot from behind woman. The rodents are now singing and dancing. They are well choreographed. The group is not quite centered. They are offset slightly to the left side of the frame. The frame is balanced out by the left side of the woman's head on the right side of the frame. As the rodents perform, the camera tracks forward and tilts down until the woman's head is completely out of the frame and the rodents are more centered.
Cut to medium close-up of woman as the rodents are still performing off-screen. She looks confused.
Cut back to long shot of the rodents, who are still performing.
Cut to medium shot of woman, who interrupts the rodents.
Cut to long shot of rodents, who have stopped performing. The rodent in the pink skirt begins conversing with the woman.
Cut to medium shot of woman, who responds to the inquiries of the pink-skirt-wearing rodent.
Cut to medium shot of rodent in glasses and blue shirt, who was pulling the green cord earlier. The camera is shaky to stimulate a sense of panic.
Cut to long shot of all six rodents. The rodent in the pink skirt is responding violently to the woman's statement, and grabs another rodent's collar as an impulse.
End sequence.
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