When filming Recurrence originally we had made the mistake
of not seeing the location first hand, we had only seen pictures of certain
areas of the house, yet when we arrived and looked closely at the location we
realized that we could increase our shot variety, for example the high angle
shot that we used to represent the isolation of Lara in the house would not of
been possible without the grand staircase that was in the house.
Also when filming the first version of Recurrence the
storyline was somewhat different to the final storyline. By having Lara running
away we created the montage of shots of her walking down the driveway, which
added value and variety to the film. In particular the close up where Lara
walks towards the camera created a false sense of security as typically
this is what would occur when a troubled
teenager was running away from her troubles yet she is in fact running towards
her troubles.
The two locations that we filmed in greatly aided us in showing
connections between the past and present. For two reasons in particular; the
first the age of the house in which was shown as Lara’s Dads house bring is of
an older architectural style adding age to the opening as well as working well
with the storyline. The second is the contrast between the modern house that is
presented as Lara’s mum’s house which and the older building of Lara’s dads
suggesting that Lara instead of going to her future is crossing over to her
past.
Also a huge part of the film is the symbol of the candle, a
candle normally represents positive things such as romance or peace and in many
religions is a sacred symbol. We use the candle in a similar sense where we
have the candle lit at the start of the film symbolizing hope and peace however
the candle being blown out creates this idea that all hope is soon to be lost
and that there is no chance of stopping it as the idea of the candle is to
represent in a simplistic way that everything is set in stone and that the past
will always repeat itself.
The Soundtrack of the film originally was going to be
Requiem by Mozart however we believed that this music overshadowed the content
of the film. We then discovered “Peaceful Sleepers” a charity single released
by a local band Amy’s Ghost and after trying it out with our footage as we
believed that the genre of the music work greatly with the genre of the
film, we obtained permission from the band
and added it to the final film.
During our editing we spent time looking at the different
forms of transitions and practiced placing them at different aspects of
unwanted footage and thereby gathering an understanding of what transitions and
edits worked best with in our film.
Final cut pro was a very effective piece of software that allowed us not
only to edit the film using a wide range of tools and techniques but to also
export a film of extremely high visual quality.
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