Editing Techniques

The screen grabs above show the transparency technique we have used in editing to show the disappearance of our protagonists girlfriend. This is a technique we wanted to show as it successfully gives the illusion of the ghost of the girlfriend which eventually fades away. This therefore suggests to the audience the death of this girlfriend just through visual techniques, thus showing the audience that the girl still remains heavily on the protagonists mind, in a way haunting him. 

In order to create this technique we had to layer two seperate clips, one of the protagonist walking away from the camera, and a second of the girlfriend doing the same alongside. When the clips are then overlayed, one - of which we chose the girlfriend walking away from the camera, can be made more transparent and then fade away. We aimed to make it look as though the girlfriend was walking alongside the protagonist, as though they are walking happily together - as though this is a dream like sequence. This was difficult to film as it was hard to get both the actors to walk an equal pace and distance so that neither would be in front of the other.

I believe this technique is extremely provocative in gaining an emotional response considering that the audience witness the protagonists mind, and the emotion he must be feeling due to the death of his girlfriend. The sequence is somewhat eery, however, I believe this is desirable and helps to successfully show the themes of death and coping with, that the song entails.