Annotate the images from the video: how does the director use composition to create meaning in the scenes from Drive?

Due to the director’s choice of filming and the use of the “quadrate technique” almost every shot has a composition of balance. Top with bottom, left and right. Due to this the director can create conventional ordinary scenes into an unconventional and mind triggering scenes.

1. In the first scene the director used a technique which shows two different perspectives of two different characters, and in stead of using two different shots or having to different scenes or splitting the screen he uses one camera which captures both points of view on each side of the screen (Left – Right). By doing so the image comes alive and keeps our eyes busy and entertained even though we might not realize it.

2. The next scene uses the same technique but instead of using left and right it uses top and bottom. The top shows the triangle of characters which are having a conversation and is giving us a sense of their character and their relationship between one another through the shoulder movement and context of the conversation . Whereas the bottom part of the screen also has a story of its own and is giving a bigger insight on the characters through the body movements and specifically through the hands.

3. In this scene the character is on the top left of the screen and the audience will assume that the next character will appear next to him in top left , however the director makes the character appear bottom left , which creates a sense of disturbance and confusion of the moment.

 4. The next scenes show a sense of balance of “power” between the two characters and shows that they both have the same ambitions. The director does this by having the two characters in the same quarter of the quadrate which emphasizes their balance and both of them are looking at the same corner of the quadrate which shows their aim.