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Editing

While editing the film, I began to see which scenes worked and which did not. I realized that the second scene in the kitchen with the egg shell did not work as there were too many scenes in the kitchen that looked too similar. I ended up adding scenes of a person...

Using Voiceover to Shift Tone

I found the use of voiceover in Y Tu Mama También to be an interesting way of manipulating or shifting the emotional tone of a scene. The narration usually interrupts lighthearted scenes where the characters are goofing off or teasing each other. Half a second of...

Mishaps When Filming

I learned several things after a couple of mishaps when filming. I definitely learned the lesson of being prepared and came to understand the limitations of using natural light. I decided that I wanted to film the soccer scene as the sun was setting, in order to avoid...

Drawing Emotion from Music

After listening to the piece of music that my friend kindly composed for me, I tried to come up with the emotion that I wanted to visually convey or the story I wanted to tell. After listening to the song over and over, I settled on a feeling of something like...

Tree of Life

Watching The Tree of Life definitely answered my earlier question about scenes that aren’t directly relevant to the plot. The plot of this film is abstract at best, and there are entire sequences that don’t have anything at all to do with moving the plot forward. For...