A video essay analyzing a particular filmmaking technique – the subjective camera. The dynamic, subjective camera in Black Swan keeps us close to Nina, seeing the world through her eyes.
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Transcript provided by Youtube:
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Xena pushes herself to let go she cracks
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under pressure and the camera mirrors
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and intensifies Nina’s unraveling attack
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it attack a mom cinematographer Matthew
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Lee batik uses different techniques such
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as handheld follow shops and kinetic
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spinning camera to situate the viewer in
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Nina’s unstable perspective the camera
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stays close to Nina’s we can see through
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her eyes grasping the dynamic life of a
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dancer who never stops moving we stay
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within Nina’s head even when her mind’s
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eye had to see you sir Lee boutique’s
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use of shaky handheld shots increases
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over the course of the film echoing
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Nina’s growing uncertainty and paired
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with the magic realism depictions of her
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delusions we can feel her losing her
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mind
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