Quantico, discovery of the twins

Résumé du document

This document is a film analysis of a scene from the series "Quantico" de Joshua Safran, the one where Simon discovers the existence of the twins. The analysis therefore includes a detailed presentation of the shots, sound and editing, as well as the speech.

Here is a link to the scene in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYBrhKcgq9E

Extraits

[...] According to the IMDb website, Quantico's rate is raised up to 6.7/10 (for 54 thousand users of the website). Furthermore, it was nominated for several awards in 2016 (the Teen Choice Award of the Revelation of the Year and of the best novelty on TV, and the People's Choice Award for the new favorite drama series) and in 2017 the same People's Choice Award as in 2016. In order to analyze this scene, we are going to study the scene deeply in its details. [...]

[...] As regards the sound, discussions between characters are well understood, but there is an extra-diegetic music during the scene. We can also distinguish phone rings as extra-diegetic sound at the FBI office. As we have already mentioned, this artwork was meant to be mysteries, dramatic and terrorism related at the same time. The creator of this series wanted to point out the New York City Police Department after the 11th September attacks in a political thriller way, he could accomplish his goal by mixing terrorists with FBI. [...]

[...] This work was continued during three seasons, each episode is related to its previous and follow one, until the story was ended. It would be important to watch the hole series in order to understand the story and better understand the scene we have here. In this specific scene, colors and frame used perfectly match the importance of the situation and the event (darkness when Simon hits his head for example). To conclude, the scene here is taken from a famous series which made a great success between the audience. [...]

[...] Now that we described the details of the scene, we will focus on the staging. We will talk first about the frame; all parts of this scene are including in the field, we would have a feeling that we have an out field part when we watch Alex and Ryan discussing but then the camera will show us their computer screen so that we know what they are talking about. About the shot scale, the scene represents several shots; at the beginning in the part where Simon gets in the room and find the twins, we have a close-up shot which allows us to see characters from there top half, the camera follows the actors during the scene and the shot changes during this same moment of the scene as we can see a medium shot where Simon is close to the room door and we see him from bottom to top. [...]

[...] Next, we will do a full analysis of this artwork. This Quantico's scene which lasts one minute and twenty-five seconds (1:25 minute) was held at the 6th episode of the first season. It represented the present in 2015. We can see a natural daylight from windows, so the scene present events happening during the day, it starts in a room then moves between a place like a private desk and the FBI office and at the end happens in a room as well. [...]