FS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Telephoto Lens, Run Lola Run

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: FS100
• Professor: Elzbieta Ostrowska

Document Summary

Shows us how lola feels, which is not great. Closer shots are used to convey the characters emoional responses to diferent situaions. Are used to convey the characters narraive power or lack of. It establishes super human omniscient narraive perspecive. It helps to indicate whether lola will arrive on ime or not. The wide-angle lenses are used to evoke the eiciency of her movement through space and ime. The telephoto lenses are used to indicate the fuility of her movements. Lola is in focus but the people and the objects in the foreground and in the background are not. This isolates her, and separates her from her surroundings. When two shots are juxtaposed in a way that emphasizes their visual similariies. Lola"s boyfriend throws the red bag of money in the air. This shot is followed by one of lola throwing the red telephone receiver in the air.