Blog Post #3: Relationship Between Shots

I chose to analyze a scene from the movie Bridesmaids.  This scene depicts a group of women trying on dresses in a bridal shop.  However, they all suddenly get food poisoning.  The way the director shoots this scene significantly helps display a sense of mayhem.  At the beginning of the scene there is a wide shot of all of the women standing in their dresses.  The colors in the scene are bright and pretty.  As one of the characters, Annie, is beginning a loving speech, the camera suddenly cuts to another character who starts gagging and farting.  As everyone struggles to figure out what is happening, more of the characters begin to get sick and each time the director makes a sudden cut to them.  Soon everyone runs out of the room leaving just to characters standing there.  These two characters are mostly calm and quiet making the sudden cut to a character projectile vomiting onto a wall in the bathroom, even more jolting.  As more characters enter the bathroom in a panic to find a toilet, the scene becomes more and more chaotic.  Everyone is still wearing bright dresses but the actions don’t match the surroundings.  The director then cuts back to the extremely quiet room with the remaining two characters.  There is even light elevator music playing in the room, which emphasizes the contrast between the two settings even more.  The director cuts back and forth between the two settings several times and I believe that these obvious cuts from chaos to calm are what make this scene so funny.