The different types of shots that Professor Berg spoke about were the LS that establishes the location and is a sad shot, then the MS that gives information about the relationship of the characters, and then the CU that shows the important details and the feelings and emotions of the character. In the film The Grapes of Wrath when Tom leaves the family Ford uses the three different shots. When Tom is telling Ma that he is leaving it is a CU and we can see the details and emotions of how Ma feels about him leaving. Then when Tom leaves it goes to a MS and we see that they are at the place of the dance that happened earlier in the film. It was a time in the film where the family was actually happy. Then we see a LS looking back at Ma watching Tom leave and we see how sad Ma is about Tom leaving. This is also a unique film because Ford uses an extreme long shot of Tom walking away and shows how lonely and sad Tom is. Through these three different shots we do not need dialogue between the characters to understand what is going on in the scene.
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