Fargo Notes

-It’s night, so the house is dark?

-Camera slides to the left

-Zoom into her face

-Shows her back

-Zooms but follows her

-Dark basement (foreshadowng that something bad will happen or to show that basements don’t have a lot of light)

-Screen moves down

-Panel moves towards her again and then also moves upward with Lester

-Waist shot/full body?

-The lighting near the washer is more lit up

-Cameras switches between front and back shots (Over the Shoulder)

-Focusses on the shaking washer

-Waist shot?

-Follwed her for a slight bit

-Mood changes quickly

-Switches between perspectives

-Face shot

-His face is more shown in the light, hers not as much

-Not showing his face with the light

-Waist shot?

-Camera follows his hand

-Shot of her face

-Her face darkens with the lighting

-His face

-Dramatized movements

-Focussing on him killing her because they don’t wish to show what she’d look like

-Bloody poster

-Showing dead body moving becuase of what he’s doing

-Darkened face

-The end result of what he did to her to make him feel guilty 

-Showing his face so we know what he’s thinking with his emotions

-Showing the back of his head and zooming onto the poster

-Showed the poster to let you know what he’s feeling (I’m not wrong they are, which led him to this moment)

-Following him around with the camera

-Zoom and slide

-Full body shot

-Following his movements

-Switched frame to his waist shot (no inbetween transition)

-Following him

-Slight shakingness of the camera (not still)

-Full body and slide

-Showing clock to show how much time???

-Head shot and darkness while calling

-Moves camera slightly down to show his face more 

-Switched to a far shot

-Slide

-Called wrong number

-Back to his side face shot

-Background is faded out and there’s more light

-Waist shot

-Over the shoulder shot

-Mumbles noises

-Far shot

-Camera not moving

-High angle shot

-Grabbing gun, less lighting

-Full body and following movements (Long shot)

-Still

-Perspective of opening door

-Praticing framing?

-Dark to light emphizing the citation

-Full body walking towards us (Long shot)

-Following him

-Over the Shoulder shot

-Bathroom?

-They wasn’t really any background noises because they mostly wanted to focuss on the peoples (so the voices and noises they made were clear)

The set took place in their living room, their basement, and bathroom. The lighting was toned down and was more dark to dramatize the setting (which was supposed to be horror and suspenseful). The camera shots liked to mostly focus on the peoples faces, waist and up, long shots, over the shoulder, etc. Their editing had some sliding translations to make the scene look cleaner or would just cut to the next framework (which looked nice). Then, for the sound is what quiet and focussed more on the noises and voices of the people. Of course, there was still some sound effects to emphasize what was going on too, such as the washing machine, the hammer hitting her, Pearl hitting the ground, etc. However, that wasn’t really their main focus since they wanted it to be more quiet for suspense. You can tell with Lester and Pearl that they’ve obviously had arguments before so this was something waiting to happen apprently (give some background info.). Not only that but Lester was very sensitive towards his manliness, very paranoid, etc. They also focussed on the scenes with the poster to show his emotions and such. He also made a wrong call which can effect the future story to show how messy he is right now and in a state of panic. Then, when he finally asked for help he was planning on staging a scene and killing somoene again.