Spiderman - Final Scene Storyboard

Camera Positions

The storyboard is based off of the final scene from Spiderman 1. In it, Peter Parker is reflecting on his identity and mourning the death of his Uncle. The shot begins with a close up of Ben Parker’s gravestone, where we see the extreme left side of Peter. The second shot reverses positions and we see a close up of Peter’s face, showing us that he is having internal conflict. The third shot moves out and we see an extreme wide shot of the graveyard, where Mary Jane enters the scene and catches Peter’s attention, walking towards him. The 4^th shot is a close up of Mary Jane and Peter hugging, Peter facing the camera and Mary Jane facing away. The final shot is a reversal, giving us a close up of Mary Jane with Peter facing away, still in a hug.

In these shots, the director stuck to the 180 degree rule. The camera never moves to the other side of the line established when Peter is looking at the gravestone, and when the new line is established when he and MJ meet and hug. The 30% rule is followed as well. Whenever a same angle shot changes, it goes from an extreme wide shot to a close up. However, judging from the video on YouTube, the 1/3 rule was not as closely followed. Many of the main objects were closer to the middle than the 1/3 crosshairs. For example, Ben Parker’s grave is centered in the shot, and in the next shot of Peter, he is framed close to the center. When he and MJ are hugging, neither one are perfectly placed in the 1/3 positions. The only explanation I have for this is that because the shots don’t exactly follow what we would come to expect, it reflects the inner conflict that the characters in the scene are feeling.