Unit18: Cinematography

The short film mainly focuses on a failed romance between two young teens. Due to this being a risky project as the girl in the end turns out to have a girlfriend in the end we didn't want to offended anyone from the LGBTQ+ community. It also has a variety of editing techniques to connote things such as love, heartbreak and conflicting emotions.   In the first scene the protagonist is shown talking to himself in the mirror, however the reflection in the mirror is seen to be talking and doing its own actions in turn with the protagonist. This links in with Levi-Strauss's theory of binary opposition mainly because the reflection shows the opposite of the protagonists feelings this being confident and strong where as the protagonist in the real world feels anxious and worried to talk to the girl. By editing it like this it helps the audience understand what is going on through his head and why this scene has been included in the final product. After this scene there is then a jump...

      In this screenshot the editing has been changed where it shows the protagonist talking to his reflection. However, the shot in the mirror is doing different actions to what the real version is. This shows how he is arguing with himself. It was filmed as two shots and then the shot in the mirror was masked over the scene of the real version of the protagonist speaking with the audio being linked up.      When the protagonist is walking down the street and sees the girl there is then a transition called VR light fade which connotes someone having a dream sequence, when the transition fades the colour of the video turns to a light blue.        Throughout the dream sequence the colour keep changing with each scene this is done with light rays and the transition is VR light fade. This is achieved by going to light effects and pressing onto light rays, the way the screen changes colour is by opening the effects panel and then entering th...