{"id":401,"date":"2018-01-08T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/?p=401"},"modified":"2018-01-08T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:36:19","slug":"vince-gilligans-pov-shots-in-breaking-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2018\/01\/08\/vince-gilligans-pov-shots-in-breaking-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Gilligans POV shots in Breaking Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Breaking Bad \/\/ POV\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34773713?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the course of Breaking Bad, director Vince Gilligan uses unusual POV shots to establish a continuous\u00a0narrative surrounding the protagonists, their character-defining decisions and their repercussions. The protagonists\u00a0(Walt and Jesse) are shot from unusual places and objects: the inside of barrels, a fridge, a tumble dryer, a frying pan, and a gas mask to name a few. These shots are often, if not always, connected to a character-building moment related to Walt and Jesse&#8217;s production of meth and objectively capture their progression throughout the series as they find themselves in increasingly riskier positions, referenced by the inherent claustrophobia in all the POV shots.<\/p>\n<p>This style influenced my own editing, drawing attention to how different shots can offer a new level of context. I decided to use a POV shot of my own, showing the preparation\u00a0of drugs from under a pane of glass, creating a similar feeling of claustrophobia, representative of the dependency felt by my protagonist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the course of Breaking Bad, director Vince Gilligan uses unusual POV shots to establish a continuous\u00a0narrative surrounding the protagonists, their character-defining decisions and their repercussions. The protagonists\u00a0(Walt and Jesse) are shot from unusual places and objects: the inside of barrels, a fridge, a tumble dryer, a frying pan, and a gas mask to name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2018\/01\/08\/vince-gilligans-pov-shots-in-breaking-bad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vince Gilligans POV shots in Breaking Bad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}