Jemile Kendjer

Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq9t-7fIjII 

 

I based my assignment on a scene from Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void. 

In this film, I enjoyed how Noe used a point of view shot for most of the movie to show life from the perspective of the main character, all the way down to the blinking. I also loved the colour palette of the movie and his use of bright and vibrant street lights that contrast with the often dark clothing of the characters. 

In my own adaptation of this scene, I attempted to replicate the point-of-view shot throughout my scene and the pops of colour he used. I set it up so I shot everything at night in order to capture the contrast of bright lights and darkness that the scene has (using both street lights and coloured lights).

One main thing that I struggled with was recreating Noe’s blinking when shooting my own point-of-view shots. I was unable to do it and make the blinking look natural- both while filming or in the editing process. However, it is something that I would love to learn. 

When filming this, I had a lot of different shots planned from the outset that I wanted to try but I had to cut many of them out in the editing process because it would’ve brought me well over the time-limit allocated. Additionally, spending this much time filming definitely didn’t leave me enough time to edit my project, and I should have allocated more time to the editing process.