Perks of Being A Wallflower is a novel by Stephen Chbosky it was made into a film in Septemberr 2012. Stephen directed it and was produced by Russell Smith, Lianne Halfon and John Malkovich. In this film they use single camera techniques because most of their shoots are outside and not on location shots. In this scene Charlie played by Logan Lerman has a mental breakdown. It starts off with him walking to the place where he last was with his Aunt before she got killed. It then goes into a flashback of his last time with his aunt, he is then seen crying looking distressed as he walks closer to where he was with her at this time there is two of him. Then there is another flash back with his Aunt and then it goes back to real age Charlie walking forward but now there are three of him. He then walks into his house and has another flash back of his Aunt in the car crash, then again back to real time where we see photos of the family together. The scene speeds up with Charlie having an anxiety attack with him whispering as the photos are viewed. Then there is a flashback to when the family is told his Aunt is dead he then runs to his room where he is whispering and crying. Flashbacks are then show from when he was younger and recently. He then blacks out.
Charlie's Breakdown Scene.
In this scene there is about 50 shots in total. There is a lot in this scene compared to the others because this is a longer scene as this scene is 1.43 minutes. The reason for this scene being so long is because it's the most important scene in the film because every other scene in the film builds up to this moment. The first angle is a extreme wide angle this is because Charlie isn't initially in the shot however a few seconds later in the distance he appears. The majority of the flashbacks are medium close ups, with most of them being two shots this is because they are mostly of Charlie and his Aunt. This is so that you see it up close what is happening but you also see where they are. The location is very important in this scene because Charlie returns to where his flashback was. Charlie is seen walking to the camera in a long shot this is to show his whole body and the area. The camera is looking at him from a slight angle this is so he seems more in control than he actually is, the reason for this is because during this shot he is actually crying. There are a few long shots one where there is two of him and one where there is three of him this is to show that he is going crazy. In the last shot he seems in control of the scene but in the next shot he is seen as inferior because it's a birds eye view and he looks small and vulnerable. Yet again there is another flashback which is a close up on his Aunt in the car crash and then a panning shot to all of her photos which then transits into a close up. There is then a over the shoulder the shot where the police are talking to Charlie's mum, this shot is used to shown Charlie's feelings. Finally there is a series of flashbacks which are all medium close ups. The shots have a variety of lengths with at the start the shots last for about 5-6 seconds but at the end each shots speeds up as the adrenaline gets more intensive.
Some of the camera angles from the scene.
The sequence of the shots in this scene is very important because each shot implies how the character is feeling. The slower shots are at the start because Charlie's feeling aren't that strong but as the scene goes on it speeds up as Charlie's breathing speeds up so does the sequences which starts with the flashbacks from the furthest time ago and then gets to the nearest ones.
The music is played throughout and it's very dramatic and tension building, at the start the music is very slow, with voices speaking over when the flashbacks happens. The majority of this scene is a mix of music and vocals. The only time that sound effects happen is when his Aunt get crashed into this is because the tension has built up for this event. After the car crash the music continues and once the door slams the music speeds up by getting more and more intensive as Charlie whispers above the music, the music gets quieter as he gets louder then the music reaching it's peak of intensity as the scene blacks out.
The editing of the shots differs from the beginning of the scene to the end of the scene. At the start the editing between the shots is done really slowly this is because by the end we can see how much faster the editing has gotten.There aren't that many cut shots, with the majority of the shots being straight cuts this is because they are going straight from one shot to another. Although there is a lot of contrast cuts from where the flashbacks have taken place as it goes from flashback to real life as he is imagining it. After the crash there is a wipe cut which shows the aftermath of the crash where it shows all of the photos. There is a couple of L cuts where the sounds appears before the actual shot this is mainly when Charlie is whispering but you cant actually see him in the scene because it is a series of flashbacks. Finally the last cut is a fade out as Charlie blacks out the scene ends.
This scene was incredibly have to shoot for the actors because of the amount of shots taken this is because in this scene the editing is the most important part because of the amount of flashbacks. This is because in this scene there is more flashbacks then real time film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_transition - 6th October 2013
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