Television: Visual Storytelling and Screen Culture (Routledge, 2018)

Table 10.1: Grey's Anatomy Scene Découpage

On the January 21, 2010 Grey's Anatomy episode, a 91-second scene between Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh) and Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) [occurs during the episode's final act, at approximately 50 minutes into the broadcast?]. It contains 13 shots, with an average shot length of 5.23 seconds and a median shot length of 5 seconds. The exterior setting is just outside of Seattle Grace-Mercy West Hospital.

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Table 10.1: Grey's Anatomy Scene Découpage
Shot Number, Scale & Length Figure Action, Dialogue & Music
1
long shot to
medium shot
10 secs.
(Figures 10.9-10.10)		 click to enlarge

[Dissolve in from a transitional shot of the Seattle skyline.]

Nondiegetic music: Trent Dabbs's "Your Side Now" slowly fades out.

Meredith (in VO): It feels cruel...
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[The actors walk toward the camera, into a medium close-up.]

Lexie: Hey.
Mark: Hey.
Lexie: How did...
2
medium close-up
2 secs.
(Figure 10.11)		 click to enlarge Lexie: ...Sloane's surgery go?
Mark: I slept with Addison.
3
close-up
4 secs.
(Figure 10.12)		 click to enlarge Lexie: Oh, thank God...
4
close-up
8 secs.
(Figure 10.13)		 click to enlarge Mark: ...because I slept with Alex. I was feeling so... well...
5
close-up
3 secs.
(Figure 10.14)		 click to enlarge Lexie: ...you know how I was feeling. Which is why this is great. You know, we're even. We kind of canceled each other out.
6
close-up
6 sec.
(Figure 10.15)		 click to enlarge Mark: You slep with [Alex] Karev?
7
close-up
2secs.
(Figure 10.16)		 click to enlarge Lexie: Yeah.
Mark: While I was dealing with my sick daughter...
8
close-up
5 secs.
(Figure 10.17)		 click to enlarge

Nondiegetic music: Matthew Mayfield's "Better" starts to fades in.

Mark: ...while I was hurting.
Lexie: Ah...
9
medium close-up
3 secs.
(Figure 10.18)		 click to enlarge Lexie: ...you weren't hurting. You were sleeping with Addison.
Mark: You...
10
medium close-up
6 secs.
(Figure 10.19)		 click to enlarge Mark: ...broke up with me. Left me...
11
close-up
6 secs.
(Figure 10.20)		 click to enlarge Mark: ...and just... wow.
12
close-up
7 secs.
(Figure 10.21)		 click to enlarge

Mark: I can't even look at you right now.

Nondiegetic music: Lyrics begin, "Two fires, they're breathing..."

13
medium shot
7 secs.
(Figures 10.22-10.23)		 click to enlarge

Nondiegetic music: Lyrics rise, "...running out of air."

Meredith (VO): ...and against common sense.

Nondiegetic music: Lyrics continue, "Two hearts, they are beating..."

[Mark exits the frame.]
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Figure 8.15		 [Cut to the first shot of the following scene.]
Last revised: 19 June 2020 15:52:42
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