Clayton George Wickham - final thesis

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shots, the viewer witnesses a shot very close to the eye of a character, but based on
the other shots within the sequence, knows that the camera does not inhabit the space
of the character eye, even if it is only shifted a couple of inches, shown from
eye/positioning when the character is not looking, or rotated slightly, in one case.
During Lizabeth’s death, Jason apparently stabs her through the mouth with a long
pole. However, in the off-model eye/camera shot, Jason appears in the top of the
frame as she is lying down, but when he thrusts the pole downwards, the end
disappears above the frame. If it were a direct eye/camera shot, the pole would have
gone from the top of the frame, the end disappearing in the bottom of the frame. In
this case, the camera is positioned just below Lizabeth’s mouth. During the business
executives’ paintball game, Katie jumps out of the brush, and shoots Stan then Larry,
each with a paintball pellet. A shot that appears to be an eye/camera shot shows
Katie aiming and shooting at the camera, cutting as the paintball hits the bottom of
the frame. The cut, however, is to a reverse shot, where it is clearly shown that the
paintball pellet strikes Stan’s chest, placing the off-model eye/camera shot also on
his chest. As Tommy and Megan are running away from the police in a car chase,
Megan thrusts Tommy’s head into her lap so that they will not see him in the car.
The spectator is then shown an off-model shot of Megan’s crotch from Tommy’s
position, however, Tommy’s eyes are perpendicular to the seat of the car, whereas
the off- model eye/camera shot is rotated ninety degrees, parallel with the seat, and
Megan’s crotch is shown upright, instead of sideways as a direct eye/camera shot
would indicate. The most interesting off-model eye/camera shot precedes Cort’s
death. After Jason kills Nikki in the camper’s bathroom, he moves toward Cort who
is driving. There are two shots showing Jason approaching in the rearview mirror
from what would be Cort’s eye/camera, if he were looking. When he does look, he