Persona: Week 4:
We were set a difficult challenge this week, we had to copy a piece of footage from the 1966 Ingmar Bergman film 'Persona'. We found this very challenging and made the decision to focus on the emotion and meaning of the piece as a main priority, however we did try to be as accurate as possible with the cinematography, sound and lighting. We chose to do the film in English, mainly because neither myself or Jemima can speak Swedish.
I took the role of acting and editing this week. When I was piecing the shots together I found our shots to be accurate on most occasion but I did have to trim the beginning of some of the shots as they weren't quite correct and took away from the piece, (mainly the last shot). I created the black and white by removing all saturation from the footage within the colour correction mode. I also increased the brightness to +6 and the contrast to +12 (give or take as I edited them to be as closely matched to each other as possible) to try and give it that sharp and striking look.
I was pleased with our piece this week, I think that we captured the emotion of the piece and I feel that my editing was to a good standard adding visually to the piece.
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