CONSTRUCTION: EDITING IN IMOVIE

When editing our film opening today we used the Opacity tool which allows you to place one clip on top of another. We did this as we wanted to achieve a sense of fantasy, of entering into the thought process of olez, the older man who feels jealous of the younger man and his successful friendships with girls.

Olez is depicted as a troubled character who fantasizes about the beautiful girl who is out of his reach. He broods on images of her, in particular, her long hair and how she moves. He clearly has an unhealthy interest in her as he experiences a mixture if desire and resentment. Using the opacity tool allows us to stimulate the mixture of feelings that he is experiencing and lets the audience into his mental state.

 

We deliberately introduce images of the sharp fish knife that olez uses for work as he broods on his resentment and frustration. By overlaying images of the girl with images of the knife, we convey how he is starting to think of using violence as an outlet for his feelings. The knife is positioned over the girls body in order to connote violence. 

CONSTRUCTION: FILMING LOCKER ROOM SCENES

In todays lesson we continued filming. We wanted to establish the setting for the scene and did so by using a left to right pan. We planned the shot so that the wooden panel can be used when editing to have titles appear on it.

We also filmed the scene where Bryn gets ready for his job. We positioned the camera with a slight upward tilt showing the back of Bryn to keep his identity hidden for the time being. This was also done to leave us with an area of white space in the top left of the frame to enable us to add titles.

Also when Elliot comes into the locker room looking angry. We used a downward tilt of Elliot when he through his hat off in anger. We did this to show how his feelings have got on top of him and has forced him to concede to himself.