breakdown 4(Glen)

"The Questions We Ask" - Bruce Kirkby in a Kalum Ko film from Kalum Ko on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/78451097

The opening shots of this video are all long shots to set a kind of mystery about the content of the video and to set a distanced tone along with the music to make it seem like this is a far off place, the shots off the wave invoke the idea of distance and emptiness since that is what people associate with the ocean. The figures in the ocean are off center to show the fact that they are also distanced from reality and its like they are stuck in time. At the minute mark it starts to become close ups to bring in the human factor so the previous shots seem more realistic and the are cut faster to bring the viewer in and the music picks up pace to show that the distant places aren't so distant anymore. The human factor is brought in more and more but with the same shots off faraway places so that it seems more possible and entices the feeling that the distant places out there aren't that far away at all.

The lighting in this is all made to seem natural due to the fact that the video is about outdoor exploration the lighting needs to illuminate everything but also leave the shadows for definition, the reason the lighting wasn't edited for effect was due to the fact that the video wants to highlight the raw beauty of the world, a few lighting techniques such as focus and diffusion were used but not drastically.

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The music starts off soft to set the tone for the dialogue to get our attention but it starts to pick up as the dialogue starts to move faster and the shots match this pace, it becomes lower again to reset the tone then it increases as more of the human element is added to the clip then it stops for the final question at the end so it stays with you. the ambient track is mostly just to add to the dialogue, it changes as the tone and pace of the narrator dose.

Setting the mysterious and distant tone for the start of the video

Shows the boat detached from everything else, its just the boat and the empty sea, this is done so the feeling of the boat being in its own world can be felt because in this frame it is in its own world with nothing around

A distant human, something we dont reach in our everyday lives, it is enjoying the tranquility of being on its own world far out of the viewers reach

First instance of a human, first sequence of close ups are the shots of the human, this brings the viewer into the distant figure world, its not so distant after all, the rule of thirds is used

Rising human element, you are close to the figure, this invokes the feeling of being able t join their world by getting closer with the world they chose to live in