School Daze

In the last scene of School Daze
I noticed that there were various types of technical choices that the director, Spike Lee and the cinematographer made than were shot in the previous scenes. I believe that wide lenses were used when the character ran towards the camera, everything was in focus such as the building behind him, the trees on both sides (giving balanced composition) and the subject himself. However, when the distance between the subject and the camera changed, there was no longer a deep depth of field and the focus had to be changed. The change in the focus became a close up to his face as he shouted "Wake up!" I believe that there was also a switch from a wide lense to a long lense, zooming, and tracking backing causing the background to become compressed. I am still curious to now what device or method was used that caused theh subject to appear to rise and closer to the sky... Tracking from left to right was also an effective technique that the director used because it gave brief insight of the emotions of confusion, enlightenment, shame, etc on the students' faces. I also noticed that the lighting changed in which I believe more hard lighting was used, casting shadows on the characters' faces. Before, especially for the musical scenes, soft lights were used to make the actors and actresses look appealing as possible, indicating fantasy and ignorance.