Project 1 Video

project1_final from Mena Guy on Vimeo.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Soundwalk

It's 12pm in the afternoon, and I am on my way through Times Square. There are multiple languages in the air. A typical landmark of New York City, especially Times Square. The mixture of multiple languages spoken at such a high volume that it sounds like gibberish. That's the beauty of Times Square though. The sound of diversity made me smile, but I also groaned to myself at the feeling of claustrophobia emanating within me. Two Spanish women passed me by, then a man with a thick Chinese accent. The man with the Chinese accent was yelling on the phone as he dragged a large, dirty backpack of goods across the pavement. The bag scraped against the street, making a loud brushing noise as it slid past me. The brushing noise of the bag wasn't as loud as it could be, because it was masked by the whistles and screams of the policemen. Construction tools clanked against the ground as workers were busy fixing the roads. There seems to always be some sort of construction going on. Si...
Read more

Relationships Between Shots

In the film "Old Boy" at about 13:33, a scene begins with a close up of the protagonist's hand. He is tattoing a tally mark into his skin. There is a cut to the corner of his bed where he puts the needle back. Another cut to him digging into a wall with a metal chopstick. This is a series of cuts is related to his daily routine and shows the viewers how his life is with the juxtaposition of the images. The next few cuts are an example of the Kuleshov effect. There is a close up shot of his hand with some tally marks tattooed onto it, then there is a cut to a close up shot of him digging into a wall, another cut to his hand with more tally marks, and then a cut to the hole in the wall that is now evidently much deeper. Having the images put together, the viewer can assume that over the years that the hole in the wall gets deeper. In this last portion of the scene, there is a cut to a wide shot the other side of the hole. The protagonist's head emerges from the hole thi...
Read more