Scene 1: Starts off with Usher receiving a phone call from his mistress. She tells him that she is 3 months pregnant. For this scene they used a variety of shots. They used a close up, extreme close up, mid waist shot, medium close up, side profile, and front view. It's kind of strange to use that many different frames for one scene but the editor put it together nicely. The director used multiple depths of field for the first scene. At first he/she used a soft depth of field and than it turned into a very strong one. the depth of field changed as the shot frames changed. The focus faded in and out as you can see from the screen shot above where Usher is out of focused and comes back in to view crisp and in focus.
The next scene is a totally different scheme from the previous one. Instead of switching frames every 2 seconds the DP decides to do one continuous shot from the studio to Usher's car. The director used a 3rd persons view to capture the entire scene and conversation with his friend. Although their is no on camera Dialogue it is very clear that Ushers friend is asking me where he is going and by the look on ushers face and his body reactions you can tell what he is saying. The director is telling and capturing 2 moments at once. The fist moment is Usher singing and telling us the story of how he ended up cheating and the director used the settings around Usher to tell the second story of how Usher was feeling as he left the studio.
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