The Miscellaneous Insert Shot
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
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Some of the Eva footage is a little bad looking, but I'm sure you'll get over it...
may i ask...where the Eda video is?
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Great video. I tried to look it up for a bit, and I also can't find anything that's been written about these pseudo-random/miscellaneous insert-shots/cutaways that have thematic leanings/mild thematic relevance. I'm pretty sure there will be some more examples in Madoka Magica, Steins;Gate, and Revolutionary Girl Utena, though no specific scenes immediately come to mind.
There's definitely some overlap, but I think I experience different things for the Birdcage scene vs. the Eva scenes, mainly because of the different lengths.
For the birdcage scene, when I first see the birdcage, I notice it but don't think anything of it since I assume it will cut back to the characters like it would in a typical scene; but the shot is held longer than I expect so I start to think about why we're spending so much time on it. Then I realise the thematic undertones, which shifts my perspective of the whole scene, changing how I think about the entire conversation going forward. I think about the dialogue a bit more thematically then I would have without the misc. insert shot.
I think the same thing applies to the Misato-Kaji scene, but because the shot is held for sooooo long I get to the point where I start imagining what's going on just outside the frame in my mind's eye, which makes me forget that I'm even looking at the alcohol/cigarettes, but then it keeps going for so much longer that it drags me back to the alcohol/cigarettes and this cycling of attention keeps repeating until her hand enters the scene and at that point I'm kinda shocked that the shot is changing so it drags me back into the scene regardless (like you say in the video).
The train scene is similar to the Misato-Kaji scene, in that I will dissociate due to how long it is, but instead of zoning out due to picturing something in my mind's eye, I'm kind of reflecting on everything that lead up to this scene, and eventually when it's been an absurdly long time looking at this shot, I am somewhat on the edge of my seat wondering how the stillness of the scene will be broken, which makes Shinji's declaration more important than it would have been if the frozen shot leading up to it was shorter.
So anyway, that's a somewhat vague description of what goes in my head during these scenes. But putting that aside, great video. I particularly liked the point about feeling like a 'fly on a wall' rather than being in the place of the characters.
The "thing" you are looking for and exploring is called an "insert shot". They are a film-making technique and always have emotional content.
This is quality dawg
6:02 Tell me I have to think about the thing by doing the thing while telling me what you think about the thing.
Awesome
Lmao