Spike Lee's 25th Hour

The first shot in the sequence happens right after Naturelle, calls Monty to the living room because the cops are there to search the house. This is a close/medium closeup, we get a blurry closeup of Naturelle, while we get a medium shot of Monty, and they are framed by the painting on Naturelle’s side and by the wall on Monty’s side. This almost feels like it is from one of the cops point of view, or at least close to where he is standing.

We move around the set to stand behind Monty, we get to experience this sort of face-off between Monty and Agent Flood; both characters are centered in the scene framed by the other characters. The room is soft lit, which counteracts with the tension of the scene. Monty is closer to the camera, but he is slightly out of focus, like Naturelle was on the last scene, we focus on the characters that are farther away. The three agents and Naturelle are in focus, this being a close/medium/long closeup, Monty being closest, then Flood, followed by Naturelle and the other agent, with the agent facing the other way farthest away. So our focus shifted from Monty in the last frame to agent Flood, and we look toward the room from slightly above Monty’s shoulder.

Then we shift again to focus on Monty in a medium closeup, who is not centered on the frame, but is centered on the frame of the door. We are looking at him from bellow now, right behind Flood’s leg, or almost like the are set on top of the coffee table.

Then we shift to a medium close up of Flood holding the warrant, Flood holding the warrant become centered in the frame, behind him is the corner of the room, so he is being framed by the two pictures on the wall of the Guinness poster and Naturelle’s picture.

We switch our focus again and we appear to be standing either on the next room, or right on the threshold next to Naturelle, so this could be the point of view of the officer in the other room. This is a medium/long close-up. Flood is again centered in the frame, so our eyes naturally focus on him first. The other characters are layered in the scene, with agent Cunninham slightly behind and to the right of Flood, Monty is next to the left, still within the boundaries of the frame leading to the hall, and the last agent being furthers away, by the window. Their positions are a triangle of sorts, which lead your eye around the frame.