Despite only being five minutes long, the video for A Separate Peace by John Knowles created by myself and Matt Rossignol had a lot of thought put into it. Balancing the characters and their conflicts as well as the themes in the novel was no simple task. However, the video was created and utilized color, pictures, quotes, transitions, and music to convey our messages about each character. One of the first decisions that we had made was to keep the characters separated to focus on each one individually and to ensure that the viewer understood what character was being shown. Themes of some characters overlapped with others, and to attempt to show more than one at a time could have resulted in confusion for the viewer. Another decision that
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His story was the most fleshed out, so creating his portion was less of a challenge than other, less developed characters such as Leper and Brinker. In his title slide, the background was blue as to convey his depressing story early on in the presentation. The first two pictures were added to convey Gene’s character of a studious conformist, but the later slides begin to show how Finny had affected him. The quote of Gene reflecting on his envy of Finny was colored red with black text to demonstrate his growing aggression towards Finny despite how he says otherwise. The next two images were important moments in the story for Gene, but the next important picture was a quote revolving around rejection and affection. It demonstrates Gene’s desire and need for Finny’s approval and his ever-shifting identity. The color of the text in the next quote that was placed over the image of Finny’s pink polo shows Gene’s completely different and depressed state of mind in contrast to how he felt prior to Finny’s fall. Afterwards, there are images showing Gene’s new purpose in life, which is to live out Finny’s fantasy of becoming an Olympic athlete. Finally, there is the court and marble stairs that kill Finny. The image of the stairs fades into a black screen to show the dark moment in Gene’s life that was caused by the death of Finny. Gene’s enlistment was grayed out to further this point, and the final image for Gene was the image of him alone with the tree to show his isolation from the world without
His story was the most fleshed out, so creating his portion was less of a challenge than other, less developed characters such as Leper and Brinker. In his title slide, the background was blue as to convey his depressing story early on in the presentation. The first two pictures were added to convey Gene’s character of a studious conformist, but the later slides begin to show how Finny had affected him. The quote of Gene reflecting on his envy of Finny was colored red with black text to demonstrate his growing aggression towards Finny despite how he says otherwise. The next two images were important moments in the story for Gene, but the next important picture was a quote revolving around rejection and affection. It demonstrates Gene’s desire and need for Finny’s approval and his ever-shifting identity. The color of the text in the next quote that was placed over the image of Finny’s pink polo shows Gene’s completely different and depressed state of mind in contrast to how he felt prior to Finny’s fall. Afterwards, there are images showing Gene’s new purpose in life, which is to live out Finny’s fantasy of becoming an Olympic athlete. Finally, there is the court and marble stairs that kill Finny. The image of the stairs fades into a black screen to show the dark moment in Gene’s life that was caused by the death of Finny. Gene’s enlistment was grayed out to further this point, and the final image for Gene was the image of him alone with the tree to show his isolation from the world without