Blog Assignment 7

I posted videos in early posts.




The two videos are different genres and have different styles. They both have music throughout the story, but in the second video, instead of the background like the first one, it is more like leitmotif for the characters. Furthermore, the first video is in color while the second one is in black and white. Within these two videos, there are both contrast and affinity in movement and lines.

For the movement, both videos definitely have left and right movement, I mean the movement of the characters within in the frame. However, in contrast, the second video have more in and out movement than the first one. In the first video, only when the boy gets up and leaves the room and the girl walks out from elevator has the in and out movement. In the second one, more in and out movement appears when the girl come down from the stairs, walk toward the boy and leaves the boy. In addition, in the second video, there are more movements in general than the first video, which subconsciously shows that the characters in the second movement are more energetic. Since it is supposed to be a silent movie, the movement tells story other than dialogue.

Two videos manipulate lines differently. In the beginning of the video #2, the stair rails point to the main character and her head is in the square window, so the main focus is on her. When she is on the bench, the lines of bench point up to the girl’s face. Because the shots in second video are most two shot and over the shoulder, the virtual  lines from the characters’ eyes show they are looking at each other. In the first video, only when the girl comes out from the elevator are two shot, others all close up when they are having conversation. The virtual lines from characters to the end of the frame is  longer. For example, when the girl looks at left, she is in right side of the frame, and the boy is opposite. This shows the two characters are not right next to each other, and the lines shows that they are face to each other.

Both videos are cool, because this is the first time we work together, but no one ruins the team atmosphere. I think next time we can have more footages before we wrap up, because when I edit the second one, many of them are repeating, you can see.