Technical Shot Breakdowns for Le Crocodile du Botswanga and Le Dîner de Cons

Two technical shot-by-shot breakdowns of the films Le Crocodile du Botswanga and Le Dîner de Cons. The dataset was created by Mbembo Likongo and Léon Martin for pedagogical and scientific purposes, supporting audiovisual analysis and film semiotics. It was last updated on June 12, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing film editing and narrative structure based on shot-by-shot scene descriptions.
• Studying cinematographic techniques based on described shot types, camera movements, and lighting.
• Teaching film analysis methods based on the pedagogical framework mentioned in the description.
• Conducting semiotic analysis of film based on detailed breakdowns of action, dialogue, and setting.

Strengths

• Contains detailed, plan-by-plan analysis for two distinct feature films.
• Explicitly created for pedagogical and scientific support of audiovisual analysis.
• Includes multiple descriptive dimensions per shot, such as action, shot type, camera movement, sound, setting, lighting, characters, estimated duration, and dialogue.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update is dated 2026-06-12.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Mbembo Likongo and Léon Martin.

Collection Method

Created through manual or analytical technical breakdown of the films for educational and scientific purposes.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-12 11:38:55.