Blog #3

The video I had watched was based around pairs of people in broken relationships, and are trying a social experiment to see if they could be improved. The social experiment questioned whether staring into the other person's eyes for four minutes could help improve their relationships. We get a lot of POV shots to see how the other person in the relationship is reacting/saying. Many of them begin the task with a few awkward giggles and smiles. There are also points in which they are speaking to their partners encouraging them to look into their eyes. We can get a sense of how difficult this might be without any sort of distraction. One of the men had even said the 4 minutes was too long! The music in the background was subtle, but was appropriate. It had a soft, classical sound with elements of the piano playing. It was definitely the type of music you would hear in a movie that is trying to tug at your heartstrings. Violins came into play when each pair began to break their silence and speak out on how they were feeling. It became extremely emotional, and many of them even cried. Each of the shots are similar; they begin with long shots of the pairs standing in front of one another. As they stare into one another's eyes, we see more close ups of them in order to grasp how genuine their reactions were in the moment. Most shots linger on camera for a while for this very reason. It wants to evoke some type of feeling from the viewer. In this video, I do not think there's a right place to cut or not cut. The less cuts, the more real it feels. I barely noticed the cuts, unless they were done so to portray another relationship on the screen. All in all, they meshed together very well. They did not feel distracting to me, especially since I was so focused on the actual interactions taking place. However, I do think the composition is essential because we see estranged/distant family members who eventually come together over the course of 4 minutes, and we are able to see that shift over the course of the video.


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