Thursday, 29 January 2015

Ending open to interpretation

Unfortunately, I was off ill the whole of the past week and therefore have not been in school to help with the editing or shift in ideas.

Zach very kindly sent me a message on Facebook explaining that someone had given him the idea to end the video with the main character smiling, instead of just looking up at the boy offering her a drink, and wanted to know my opinion on this ending. He then told me that he had briefly explained this ending to our media teacher who loved this idea and further offered that perhaps the smile could initiate your own interpretation, that because of the rewinds it is made clear that these are all just possible scenarios which could happen if she takes the drink, and that she is smiling because she knows what she is going to do, but nobody else does; leaving it up to audience's own interpretation.

This is how our video ended before the smile was added in:


This is how our video ended once the smile was added in:


Regardless of our teacher feedback on this shot, as a group, we decided that our interpretation of this is that she is smiling because she doesn't actually know which option to choose and she doesn't know of the different outcomes either, therefore she is still in a positive mind state. What the audience are shown in the course of the video are just possibilities for what could happen if she does or doesn't take the drink. However, this is of course just our group interpretation and it is in fact open to your own interpretation - with no right or wrong answer. 

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