om the light, and Scarlet seems have her cold and dark side of personality and as an independent woman. The lighting of indoor and outdoor is an important contrast as well. The bright, sunny outdoor natural lighting is to empasis the dark, and gloomy indoor atmosphere.CinematographyThe film clip starts with a long shot of Scarlet entering the house, and Melanie is coming down from the stairs, then the camera follows the movement of Scarlet, shows the dominant of Scarlet between Scarlet and Melanie. Large amount of close up and medium close up of Scarlet is used to empasis the dominant of Scarlets position in the house and her personal feelings.The tension of the climax of this film clip begins when Scarlet looks throught the window and saw the Union deserter walking toward the house with a gun in his hand. A point of view shot is used to represent what Scarlet saw, and zoom into the Union deserter more clear as finally the clear image of the Union deserter is in focus.The atmosphere is more tensely when the close up of the Union Deserters hand opens the jewellery box, and the close up of carlets hand grabs the gun in her drawer. Then the long, eye level shot of Scarlet walking down of the stairs followed by the medium low angle shot of the Union deserter. The low angle shot makes the Union deserter looks he is powerful, evil and dominant of that scene. (However, that is not Scarlets point of view, because shes up on the stairs and the deserter is down under in the foyer.) Then, when the deserter looks up to Scarlet, a point of view shot of the deserter by a medium close up on Scarlets face, and with soft focus it makes Scarlet looks more pretty, it suggested the sexual intention of the deserter at that moment, he not just want to rob the jewels (the earring) and money, but also have certain sexual intention on Scarlet.After the deserter killed by Scarlet, Melanie rushed out to the stairs, and the camera focused on Melanie with a medium...
