Characteristics of the video
In our assignment, we have applied some
characteristics of French Impressionism movement into our video. The story of
our video is about a lady is suffering from her nightmare of killing her friend
accidentally. Her nightmare is entangled her all the time. Her guilty has led
to some hallucinations and the horrifying memories keep appearing in her
mind,and reminding her how sinful she is. Guiltiness is torturing her day and
night, and the only way for her soul salvation is surrender.
Basically, the importance
aesthetics to show French impressionism in a film is fantasy. Fantasy
represents character’s thought or memory. The scene which we applied fantasy
element is the lady is trying to make herself calm therefore she makes some
coffee for herself. But, she comes out a hallucination of the coffee inside her
mug has turned into blood. This is to signifying her mentally status is not
stable at that moment and her thought are full with those scenes of she kills
her friend.
French Impressionism contains a
lot of Point Of View editing to show the character’s emotional. In one of the
scenes in our video, when the lady is crying at the staircase, she sees a pair
of legs suddenly appears in front of her. We shot this scene from her point of
view because we are intended to bring the audience to discover what she has
seen and her emotion at this moment. She feels frighten even though this is
only a hallucination. This scene is trying to show the fear from her inner side
that had led to the hallucination of seeing her dead friend.
Besides, we also applied flashback
in our video. We shot of her flashback memory which is the occurrence of
manslaughter in the car park. The usage of flashback can bring the
message easier to our audiences. They can understand the storyline of our video
instantly.
We also highlighted red color as
the metaphor of our video to fulfill the visual rhythm of French Impressionism.
Red represents danger, powerful, bloody, anger, aggressive, and hate. For the
makeup and the costume in our video, the lady wears red shirt and applies red
lipstick when she meets her friend in the car park. We used red color to
emphasize her rage and anger during that scene, her bad temper eventually made
her to kill the lady unintentionally. The lady who get killed is wearing a pair
of red slipper, it reflects her death and red also indicates as blood. The
emotion of revenge is presented while a pair of legs with red slipper appears
in front of the main character.
Another aesthetic of French
Impressionism is distorted visual. The effect of using this is to show the
feeling of dizzy. This effect probably shoot by using distorting lens. We shoot
our video with a normal lens but with a curved surface to create the distorted
visual. At the beginning of our video, we used a kettle to show this kind of
distorted visual.
In addition, we also shoot a scene which the main character sitting at the staircase through the window gap. This kind of camera movement is to show the feeling of peeking at the main character. Through viewing the main character from window gap, audiences can actually feel how depressful and gloomy of her world at that moment.
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