Video: Wilting of Rose

Characteristics of Video

In our tribute video, we would like to show a few characteristic that usually will found in French Impressionism. The first characteristic of our video is to show the art of French Impressionism. For example the shot on Rossie wake up in the small unfurnished dark room to show she feels apprehensive toward the environment and also the shot of Rossie flashback, she knocked a stranger walked pass by her and peeps on her when she was going to meet her friends.

There were some scenes in black and white effect, the purpose of this is to show there was a direct interaction between Rossie and kidnapper or they met face to face. For example, we can see the scene in the small room was in black and white where the kidnapper came in the room and Rossie looked at him eyes to eyes.

Besides that, we also use the characteristic of psychological exploration. To show this characteristic, we use a hand held camera movement to show the frightened feeling of Rossie and also we took the point of view of Rossie to show she woke up in the small dark room. Moreover, we use psychological exploration at the end of the video that is Rossie was starring on the light to show she wanted to escape from the sexual abuse. The light is a hope and it is near to her, but yet she still unable to touch it.

Superimposition is a function to tell the character’s feelings. It can be defined as putting two or more images overlap in order to create a double exposure effect. For example, we used a rose to overlap with the flashback of Rossie to create superimposition. The rose had been metaphorically as the woman value. At the end, the rose had been destroyed and this symbolized that Rossie life was spoiled and not virginity anymore.

As in editing part, we create the editing style that followed the rhythm of the background music to create the mood of the film. There are two scenes that we use POV cutting and that will be when Rossie awake from the fainted to show that she was all the way alone in the room at that time. Another scene will be the kidnapper was tracking Rossie to show that the kidnapper have a motive to Rossie.

Finally, through mise-en-scene we are creating an unsecure, darkness, loss reputation and intangible toward Rossie in an unfurnished small dark room. The unfurnished small dark room had been set up being this is because there is no method to escape from the kidnapper. Meaning there is no sign of hope to dodge from being abused by the kidnapper. The room’s walls covered with black paper to create fairness, worry, frighten every negative aspect can be shown in character expression. Here is an example of showing negativity, we play a lot of lighting, especially low key lighting and shadow because these 2 elements can describe fairness in many ways. Shadow can indicate something is walking toward you, but it brings harm to you indirectly.