This screen shot is when Scout Master Ward is looking for Sam when he has not shown up for breakfast. The reason I chose this shot is because it is referencing one of the great films, "Shawshank Redemtion" when Andy Dufresne did not come out of his cell for count in the prison and the Warden went looking for him and ripped down a poster on his cell wall to reveal a hole that he had used to escape, the same way that Sam did in "Moonrise Kingdom". It is also relevant that the in "Shawshank Redemption" there is the Warden and in "Moonrise Kingdom" there is Scout Master Ward. The other interesting connection between the two films is that in " The Shawshank Redemption" the guards accompany the Warden to look through Andy's cell, the khaki scouts do the same and follow the Scout Master to Sam's tent. The viewer can also see that the khaki scouts do not like Sam and later on in the film they try to bully him into coming back to camp with them, and they are not afraid to hurt Sam. This relates directly to "The Shawshank Redemtion" because the guards in the film have their own agenda and bully Andy as well. The angle of the shot is very low and uses the legs of the cot to sort of frame Scout Master Ward and the hole to show that the area being framed is the most important part of the shot. Another clue that emphasizes the hole is the plaid wall in his tent. The rest of the tent has nuetral brown tones and the plaid really stands out to again put direct the viewers eye to the hole. The shot is very nice because it can be broken down into smaller segments to show what is important.
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