9 - Frame Analysis :
The King's Man
The King's Man
2021
Genre: Action, Comedy, Suspense, Thriller
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As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them. Discover the origins of the very first independent intelligence agency in The King's Man. The Comic Book “The Secret Service” by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
#1
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The film starts with a deep focus of extreme long shot of showing South Africa, which is telling the audience where the main story will be set.
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The written codes of this frame suggest the narrative will be in South Africa, with a time period of 1902. From this, audiences may can assume that this film is related to racism, considering its location and era.
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Moreover, the non-diegetic music started to play with the first scene, the classic orchestra. This classic orchestra exaggerates the sense of immersion to the film and also gives splendid and important feeling about the following frame.
#2
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The film moves to the next frame, still with a deep focused extreme long shot but focusing more on the group of old horse carriages, with classic orchestra music plays on. This focusing and non-diegetic music can demonstrate that those carriages are doing important job or mission, which can possibly be delivering objects or take someone to the certain place.
#4
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The scene moves to the establishing shot by upward tilt of The Red Cross' destination, with a leader's appearance from back. The non diegetic music emphasised as the destination revealed.
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By this, we can assume that ​they were going to the ​place which might be the military base to deliver some aids. The emphasised music also tells that the main story will be set or about that base.
#3
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The third frame continues with the same non-diegetic music, but with a medium shot of the black man in the lead of carriages group. While they were going, suddenly his face got serious, stopped and called "your grace" who is a white man and well dressed which tells he is in high-class and important.
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Within this frame, we can know that they are The Red Cross by the sign on the bag and flags. The Red Cross delivering medicines and food to people in need, so the reason why group of carriages was going to certain place was to deliver aids. Also it is presumable that they reached the destination by a black man's words, and possibly the white man is the leader of The Red Cross or from more higher classed organisation.
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The shot changes to eye level shot of the man with a shallow focus, who's holding a binoculars to facilitate reconnaissance. The shallow focus on him gives the audience complete clarity in a shot, allow them to focus on him more detailed.
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By this, we can know that the man is having little smile on his face, which means that they reached the correct destination and satisfied about what he seeing.
#6
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The shot moves to the next scene, showing the inside of the base through the binoculars, which is the POV of the man.
In this shot, we can assume that something serious happened before The Red Cross arrives. Many graves and corpses on the land and soldiers are moving them, also the non diegetic music suddenly changes to a more downbeat.
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This shot-reverse-shot shows the man's reaction from the last shot, which is quite negative as his little smile has gone compared to when he sees the base first time. By this, we can assume that something unexpected bad situation happened on the base or to him.
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The shot moves to the downward tilt angle, shows two soldiers be on sentry duty. They let their guard down a bit but suddenly straightened up and their faces get serious and tense up as if they had spotted someone or something. Through this, we can guess that it is a remote area where people usually don't visit and far from war. This means that the graves and corpses seen in the last scene are not those of their comrades, but the corpses of enemy prisoners.
#9
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The last scene is a medium shot of showing a man visiting a military base that he was looking at through binoculars. Saying that he is representing The Red Cross as we guessed, hoped to see the general Kitchener. His tone and confident voice indicate that he is there on legitimate business and that his goals are clear.