The Water is Wide

1.The story we were trying to evoke was that of thelife span of a tree. Although the life of a tree may seem irrelevant to the average person, we thought it was representative of the daily strife we all go through throughout our lives. We wanted to convey a sense on innocence and introduction to the world through the picture of the seed. We chose to have the seed change colors to show what it was capable of, or what a person is capable of. We chose various picture of trees to show the process of the tree maturing. We added pitcures of tall trees and eventually smaller trees to show the contrast between our subject or protagonist tree to the forest. We showed a fire, which is devastating, in order to show the concept of tragedy. However, pine cones can only release their seeds when they come in contact with fire. Therefore, this message is the silver lining of the devastation of the forest.
2. The sequence I am most proud of is 2:34-3:05. The part of the story we were bring to evoke was the underlying positive aspect of the tragic fire, or the release of the pine cone seeds or the next generation of the forest. We used a picture of an actual pine cone but added a twist to the presentation of it, and and abstract view of seedlings from said pine cone. We added the red to the pine cone to represent the fire and we added a fade to the seeds and then a highlight of the seeds to portray the concept that although it may have seemed that things were fading away, they would eventually come back even brighter.
3. My film is made up of approximately 35-40% abstract images. The motif of our film was the contrast of life and death. Therefore, the consistent colors in our film were green, red, and black.
4. I learned that abstract images in film can be interpreted in various ways, and can have various meanings.
5. The interaction of images and music is reliant on the tone of the music and the emotion of the picture. While there are various feelings and emotions associated with a segment of music and it corresponds with influence of the image.
6. Chris helped immensely in the creation of our film, especially on the days I was absent for my AP tests. We went over the story board the class before I was absent and then when I returned, he had gathered so many options of pictures and effects. I am very thankful.
7. The most important contribution I made to the film was creating the story board and the overall game plan for the video.