The Analysis of the Movie’s Clip

This is a short film clip from the movie “Paths of the Soul” (or “Kang rinpoche”) directed by Yang Zhang. It shows how the pilgrims do their worships. In this clip’s 1 to 43 seconds, there are 10 shots. In the 1^stto 3^rdshot, the director uses the high angle to record the pilgrims. Through the mountains, we can see the people gradually. To link to the 4^thshot, the director used the close-up shot to record the pilgrim’s actions from the ground. In the 5^thshot, the director shows their prayer wheels in a close-up shot because the prayer wheel is the most representative thing for the pilgrims in their religious culture. Next, in the 6^thshot, it’s a shot from the ground which shows every pilgrim doing their worships through the same process. Unlike the 6^thshot shows some pilgrims, in the 7^thshot, the director focuses on two persons who have the different actions. The young girl is worshiping, another is lying on the ground. Also, through this frame, we can see that there is a long way the pilgrims may walked. Then, in the 8^thshot, the director sets the camera to record the pilgrims’ backs. And, in this shot, as we can see the clouds, the weather gets cloudy and windy. As an emphasis, in the 9^thshot, it shows the pilgrims’ whole bodies in their front. The weather gets more bad. The pilgrims wear the heavy cotton clothing to resist the cold snow. So, in the next shot, the 10^thshot, the director uses the long shot to show the heavy snow weather as an overview. Therefore, in here, it shows that whatever how the weather’s bad, the pilgrims have never stop their steps. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Nxtf8-8o4