Genre Stills

I chose to base my editing techniques, mise en scene and cinematography on the genre of Narrative. In the first still I attempted to tell the story of two friends who have had a lot of history together. I tried to this by using the editing technique of layering and the filter of Black and White. The Black and White was effective as this editing technique has a reputation of representing flashbacks. This made it look like the two friends had a deeper relationship. I layered the Black and White still with another picture of the two friends whilst keeping the original colour,to connote that they are still friends to this day and that the story could be that they are reflecting on past good times they have had together. I used the shot type of Two shot for both stills to show the friendship and bond between the two of them. It also showed the power and closeness in the friendship as they are both doing the same thing in the Two shot. For Mise en scene the two friends were walking together in a similar fashion both wearing casual clothing to show that they are comfortable around each other. We shot it outside to connote that they are on a adventure together as a key convention of the genre Narrative and friendship is adventure. The story we also tried to connote is that they had headed off outside in the open to explore and have an adventure. The stills we shot challenges the theory of Todorov is there is no problem in the stills we shot and no solution. However the stills we shot also supports Levi Strauss's theory of Binary Opposites. We tried to show this through the use of clothing colours. We had one person wearing a Black t shirt and one Wearing a White t shirt with more extravagant colours. Black connotes evil, death, depression etc and White connotes Good, Purity, Innocence etc therefore the Binary Opposite was Good vs Evil. So another part of the Narrative we were trying to show was that opposites attract and that they are friends but are totally different. We feel as a group that we could've showed this much better through our actions and not just clothing colours.