3.4. Blade Runner 2049

Thirty years after the first film’s events, a new blade runner, K (Ryan Gosling), discovers a profound hidden secret that could end the chaos that prevails in society. K’s discovery leads him to begin the search for Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a blade runner who went missing 30 years ago 7

3.4.1. Frequency of framing and close-ups

In Blade Runner 2049, we can observe that the most used frame in the first act, whose duration extends to minute 28:31, is the foreshortened, 124 of 275 frames in total. They make up this global sum, 52 full shots, 29 close-ups, 20 medium shots, 17 long shots, 15 insert shots, 8 connection shots, 7 cover shots, 2 images constructed with an American shot, and only one reaction shot.

Graph 7: Percentages on the types of frames

Source: created by the authors