As I was watching the first part of Miller’s Crossing, I noticed that the camera shots were really amazing. The glass of ice caught my attention right away. In high school, I learned how to develop my own black and white photos and the photography classes made me really aware of what makes a “good” shot. The glass of ice on the table would have made a great photograph by itself. I feel like a lot of the camera angles and placements are very meticulously planned out. It seems like an atypical thing to have a shot that could stand alone and capture a mood or has an essence about it. Another example of this is from the movie Dead Man’s Chest. There is a shot in the movie where Kiera Knightly’s wedding dress is floating by itself in the blue ocean water. Not only is the shot pretty, but it seems to express the mood and feelings going on in the movie at that point. It’s amazing how a single shot can evoke so many feelings.