Analysis/ Meaning - Doctor Who Clip

Analysing the Meaning of a Doctor Who Clip

This clip starts of on an Extra Long Shot from a birds eye view. It then tilts downwards as it zooms in on the main character's and the Tardis. It then continues to zoom into Rose and The Doctor until it's just the two of them in a medium shot. This single shot is very important and meaningful even if it may not seam it at first. 

The fact that the very first bit is from an extra long shot emphasises the social side of the scene. There are 4 people in the shot but then the fact that it then ends up being just Rose and the Doctor in the shot implies that really this scene is about them and even though there are other people there, they are the focus. This is confirmed when during the next section of the scene Rose and the Doctor having a conversation and to show that the conversation is just between them, the shots jump between close up's of Rose and The Doctor individually. 

Once this has gone on for a bit Mickey, one of the other characters in the scene says something. The camera then goes to a close up of him whilst he is taking. The fact that the other two characters do have speaking parts in the scene even though it's really a scene between Rose and The Doctor is probably the reason behind the Extra long, birds eye shot at the beginning of the scene.

Once the shot goes back to Rose and The Doctor they are no longer in individual close up's, they are both together in a medium shot. This emphasises that it's always going to be Rose and The Doctor (which is what the dialogue is talking about in the scene). Jackie and Micky. the other two in the scene are never shown in a shot together like Rose and The Doctor other then shots where all the characters are in it. 

After the characters have established (through dialogue) that Rose is going to stay with the Doctor, there are only shots of Rose and the Doctor in the scene. Even on some Long shots, they have made a point of making sure that Jackie and Mickey are just out of view. This could be to represent that Rose has made her decision and she has chosen to be with the Doctor. You don't see the other characters again until the end when the shot zooms out from a close up of Rose and The Doctor, to an extra long shot of all the characters again. This is where the scene ends.