True Detective Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_HuFuKiq8U

The establishing shot at start of the clip shows  a few characters entering a building with guns and other weapons, this tells the audience from the start that these characters and dangerous and looking for trouble. The shot does not change and continues to run an over the shoulder shot whist the characters force their way into the house and threaten the people inside the building with violence. The main character then is followed by the camera around the house whilst he checks for any other people, when he finds a child in a bedroom he tells him to hide in the bathroom, an indication that this character may not be as bad as the others breaking into the house. The camera then follows him back to the centre of the house where the rest of the gang are holding the members of the people in the home hostage. The camera is angled at an over the shoulder position in able to give a hands on perspective to the viewer, this is supposed to make them feel involved and intimidated by the chaotic scenes. When a member of the intruders fires his gun and kills an innocent member of the group originally inside the house, the character that has been the centre of the cameras attention appears to change his motive and punches a member of what the audience thought was his gang, he then forcefully escapes and makes the man he punched escape with him whilst grabbing on to his shirt. After exiting the house the main character is attacked by what appears to be a random man. The camera zooms out to a long shot that allows the viewers to fully watch the action as the main character fights of two attackers with baseball bats and catches up with his fleeing victim. Throughout the 6 minute running single track shot there are many different camera techniques, angles and shots, however not all are clear as the running, nonstop and non-edited film creates a feeling of chaos that merges all these techniques into one. A running camera with majority of it being mid shot, makes the audience involved, you feel as you are running with the character and feel the need to escape the chaos as the character does in this very scene.