Experimental Film Task Review

During this task, we chose to make a short piece about two halves of a person: Dark & Light, showing the internal struggle between the two until death (which was displayed in our setting of the Graveyard). We chose to have Charlie play the dark side dressed in black clothing and Celia play the light side dressed in more colourful clothing. However, during post-production, we chose to make the piece back and white to show that this internal battle of light and dark can inhabit every part of our lives. We then continued to show the light and darkness in our characters through their actions and the mise-en-scene. Charlie's character was shown predominately clawing at graves, to show her animalistic darker side linking to death. Whereas, Celia's character was shown predominately around nature and trees to portray her lighter side and link her to life. To show they were the same person, we filmed them never quite touching through the sequence. During the scene where they were shot together, they almost bounce off the air between them, like an invisible paradox barrier has been created between them. The most obvious shot we used to show they were the same person appears at the start and the end when we see close ups of both their eyes opening and closing to this internal battle. By showing them both, we tried to portray them to our audience as two opposing sides. We tried to use solum, depressing music for the piece to go with the idea of how depressing this internal battle can be for most people. Having to pick a side to fight and stick at it before both sides consume each other.