Video: Psyche

Synopsis

A married guy is in the darkness who found that his wife cheating on him. Alone in the darkness, he is drinking alcohol in a way to express the pain out of him. As much as he drink, the expressions take place in his mind, thoughts going on in his mind. After drinking a lot, a flashback of his wife cheating on him. He couldn’t bear the pain and due to the overly drunk he came up with a decision.

Application of Characteristics

French Impressionist Cinema is a form of artworks that creates feelings, or impressions. In this video the narration significant psychological depth, revealing the husband character's consciousness. Basically art is created by the painters and it will evoke different kind of emotions to the audience. In this theory the interest is not on the external action but inner action, the thoughts of the character and the mental state. Our main male character drinks alcohol and the emotions that he express was the inner actions the thought of his.

The emotions or feelings are circuitously expressed in art but it delivers to the audience who can determine the emotions. At the beginning of this video a red rose is burned signifying the passion in the love is no longer exits. Moreover, at the end an Indian lamp fire is blown off which means something horrible thing is about to happen that is what Indian believes. The husband wore a pure white shirt is to show the innocence and the wife character in the flashback wore a red dress showing the evilness within her. Not only that, there are few symbolisms in this video, to let the audience decides what it means. French Impressionism films are normally less direct and more suggestive. We have made it less direct and some symbolisms are used in order to give suggestive.

The editing is an important element in French Impressionism because the editing helps the audience to understand the mental state of the character. We have superimposed one video to another to show the character thoughts to evoke the inner feelings, where the husband character drinks and the emotion of his in close up is shown at the same time. We also used the continuity cut to emphasize smooth transition of time and space. The husband character drinks a lot and there is where the continuity cut is used to show he drinks a lot.

The lighting is used to render the mental state of the character. When the husband smokes, key light was used as you can see half of his face cover with shadows, gives a look of skull on his face indicating the dark side of his. On the flashback the lightings are bright to show the life of the wife wanted is to be bright meanwhile the husband life is pushed to darkness.

French Impressionism experimented and pronounced the rhythmic editing to show the pace of the experience as the character feels, moments by moments. Our video used the technique to accelerate the shots and building to a climax. Shot of the husband stabbing his wife, and superimpositions of screaming, crying and frustrated facial expressions, are used show the drunken character’s feelings. Throughout the whole video is showing what happening in his mind and what leads him to do when he had the thoughts in his mind.