AV essay i choose:
Fandor- Fade to White https://vimeo.com/303604806
The AV essay notes how often we get the “fade to black” ending or “cut to black ending”. However it focuses on the “fade to white” endings of movies and what does that technique give to the audience in terms of emotion, feelings and suggestions for the actual end of the story.
In my opinion, the use of voice-over provides for the easy, straight forward communication between the creator of the essay and the viewer. I would always choose to have voice-over in an essay also because it can easily double or triple the information you give to the viewer by otherwise just visuals.
Another technique i like in the essay is how different scenes are being compared to each other, sometimes even by split-screening. The creator also lets us self-assess the film’s endings and what emotion they portray, judge for ourselves how we feel from them as he would ask which scene would make us feel in a certain way, and therefore, doesn’t provide an answer.
I like how the creator’s choice of films for the essay is modern. We rarely see examples with old movies. I think, in a world where filmmaking would most often be taught by diving into the past of old movies, it’s important to teach people by giving modern examples. Teaching us by showing how the directors that we now look up to, master their craft, makes at least for a more engaging experience.
Clarity is something this AV essay is not short of. As it succeeds in portraying what it says and saying what it shows, the essay is easy to understand. Because of the strong points it makes and the quotes from some of the movies’ editors it also successfully makes the viewer agree and learn from it, instead of just having an opinion about it.
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