5 Master Shots Commentary

Contrast:

For the Contrast shot, a painting of a palm tree was zoomed in on; later, a real palm tree was zoomed out on. These two shots were connected to show contrast between a fake and a real palm tree.

Parallelism:

For the Parallelism shot, two different videos with related events are put back to back. A football player in a game and a cheerleader stunting were used. The video goes back and forth between the two events to show parallelism.

Leit Motif :

For the Leit Motif shot, Berluche went up to a sad boy and threw his phone out of his hand acting as a bully while sad music played in the background.

Simultaneity:

For the Simultaneity shot, the video cut between two different people walking in opposite directions on the stairs. I went down the stairs and Berluche went up. We were doing similar actions but going in opposite directions.

Symbolism:

For the Symbolic shot, we took a video of the Haitian flag in Nations Square and tilted the camera downward to show Antwon. The flag symbolized his ethnicity.