From the inspiration of our findings on the Mexican culture in the literal art of loom, we can touch on the nature-based canvas that we are to choose in three of our characters who for example are the embodiments of Creation; a flower and two young girls. Notice the latter characters dearly hold an adjective that reflects time. You might be wondering why is that so if our dynamics in the Film Opening radiates timelessness. Well, that nature that encloses the girls allows for the rationality of virtual reality—that of our film— to take place. The fictional truth arises when one considers the parallelism of the flower and the girls’ presence within our first two minutes:
- A jump cut is the technique utilized to compile the different shots taken to contemplate the process of the flower as it greets her ephemeral life sometimes embraced by sun rays, sometimes embraced by those of stars and satellites. I managed to film such spectacle in its different stages. I wasn’t holding the camera all along, but rather filmed it in its intervals of naissance (birth). The first of its intervals happened early in the morning. It was still dark. That is why I needed to use artificial light (from my phone) to set what might not entirely be called three point lightning because the key, back, and fill light are not being used simultaneously but each one right after the other. High and low key lightning are also employed precisely for the same purpose. This part of the process is of great significance to our Film Opening in terms of our thematics. The flower I had the honor to converse with, allowed me to transport her beauty into my filming when the night was not but a vestiges of an immersion that occurred at once; a theme itself of our Film Opening. If it helps for further understanding: here is one of my clips... think about its resemblance to an eclipse.
- In terms of costume design, the young girls wear pink/primrose-pink/fuchsia dresses. To add to the resemblance of the opening of a flower the clothing is beautifully put in movement when the young girls dance in circles… wandering… and wondering… Here's a screenshot for you to take a glimpse of the movement, which is going to be presented in slow motion to play with the surreal idea of timelessness.
After having both sceneries produced as envisioned, slow-paced montage/superimposing is what follows to paint a scene that interconnects with one of our themes; the girls and the flower alluding to Creation.- for they represent that who create the interweaving of thoughts and thereafter actions. (Remember: that ‘who’ is representative of the feminine hemisphere present in every human being, regardless of gender /and/ their roles.) This is purposely done to support the parataxis of ephemeral processes like the life time of a flower as well as the instant of creating the interweaving of thinking on behalf of the young girls.
Colorful and natural. We’ve also said already we’re playing with a lot of light and water, a couple of our Motifs. Seeing the correlation? the ephemeral processes like the life time of a flower involve water and light. These are cool and calm waters here, can you feel them? Dive deep. Openly.
