Editing Analysis Assignment

For my editing analysis, I chose the "You're The One That I Want" scene from the film Grease.

The scene initially begins with dramatic camera pans/tilts to reveal the main characters new looks.
First with panning from Danny Zuko's friends to reveal Danny approaching them, in a new jock look(different from his normal greaser look). The motivated camera movement builds the anticipation after his friends are shown surprised to see him.
The next big reveal similar to the first, begins with a shot of Danny's friends looking surprised to see someone approaching them. The camera tilts up from bottom to top revealing that they are looking at Sandy who now has a greaser look(different from her normal preppy look). The pan and tilt from Danny and Sandy's reveals, create a (lighthearted) sense of shock. The quick cuts to medium shots of Danny and his friends reactions are shown, and the music begins just after Sandy says her classic line, "Tell me about it, stud."
A lot of the shots in the beginning of the scene are medium shot reaction quick cuts, but when the characters are singing there is more time between cuts and wider shots. Danny's first verse for example is a mise-en-scene, wide shot revealing more of the setting, and all of the characters(Sandy, Danny, and their friends).
There are a few more quick medium shots of the other characters reactions, then once its time for Sandy's verse the shot is wide again. This is an important part of the scene because it shows that Sandy is clearly now the dominant one. The camera shows Danny on the ground, Sandy stepping on her cigarette then lightly kicking Danny up from the ground as she begins her verse with lyric, "You better shape up..."
The camera then follows Sandy as she struts forward and Danny begins to move towards her. The back and fourth chase continues to build up until the beginning of the chorus.
Sandy is again shown as the dominant one being "chased" as she is on the top of the steps of the fun house looking down on Danny.
One thing I noticed and thought was interesting was the mirroring of the characters movements and movements of the set. When Sandy is at the top of the steps of the fun house she is standing in front of a spinning wheel, then the shot of Danny shows him doing a little roll/spin too. I think it is a nice continuation from frame to frame. There is also another part where Danny and Sandy do a side to side shimmy-kind of move just before they go into the next part of the fun house called the "shake shack". The "shake shack" makes a similar side to side movement.
As perfect as I think that Grease is overall, one thing that bothered me as I analyzed the scene was during the "shake shack" part, that one wide static shot of them during basically the entire chorus was kind of dull. For such an upbeat chorus they could have had maybe a few more quick cuts. Maybe to a medium shot of Danny and Sandy or to the backup singers on the side, something to break it up and to match the music.
Sandy then leaps into Danny's arms, sort of ending the chase feel from earlier, showing that he's finally "caught" her. The rest of the song continues and cuts to medium/two shot's of the other main characters pairing up as well. As the music fades, the camera pans following Frenchy running to the gang to reveal that Kenickie and Rizzo have also made up. (So everyone ends up with the one that they want.) Frenchy then kind of puts an ending to the scene by saying, "Oh look the gangs togehter!"
The scene has a good beginning, middle and end. Beginning with the reveals of Danny and Sandy as kind of solo moments, then the "chase" happening between Sandy and Danny, then them coming together for the end of the song and everyone coming together for the end of the scene.

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