Shots.

From the lecture Professor Ramirez-Berg gave us, we learned that there are 3 different shots that are particularly important: the long-short, the medium shot, and the close-up. In 500 Days of Summer, there is a long-short shot of the main character, Tom, after his "girlfriend" gets married to another man when he's sitting in their spot, reflecting on life. This shot is important because it shows his isolation and loneliness, a shot that encompasses a lot of space, but no one else within it. There are many medium shots in this movie, many of them including when Tom and Summer are together, having a conversation. One scene, in specific, when Tom and Summer are sitting on the couch together watching a "movie", and it shows their intimacy with each other, showing the rest of the room while the two of them choose to sit very close together. It's almost like the long-short shot, but this time, there's less space and someone else is in it, showing comfort. Lastly, there is the close-up. The scene that comes to mind is the scene where Tom and Summer are about to kiss on the bed at Ikea, and the shot is very close up. This shows the most intimacy of all the shots, and it's easy to show the emotion the two have for each other in this close-up shot.