I particularly like the way you don't actually show the slap at the beginning, just the impact.
I think that more than anything I was trying to show the impact the whole thing had *on her* - and no slap can do that, only the repercussions like circles on the water. Which is why the moment right after makes for a good visual opening in Change.
The initial "I should look after your heart" is one of those sections of the vid that really works for me
I'm very glad it does. Kalinda seems to appear almost OOC when she gently pushes the door closed to ask Alicia what's wrong and if she needs help :) Such a parental gesture!
...but it really feels here as if you're building up to two of the things that are going to be huge struggles for Alicia, making them look deceptively languid through shots that feel lingering in comparison to the fast clips
I wanted the viewer to keep that fresh perspective the show presents with each of it's episodes, the sense of realistic if somewhat slow plot development and Alicia's inner world complexity. She carries around so much hurt and anger inside, so many thoughts that may be both destructive and positively changing. How many viewers sensed the importance of Will's presence at the firm from the get-go (if we try seeing things through Alicia's POV I mean)? I don't know, but I wasn't about to rush into anything in Change either, wanted to keep it as close to canon as possible.
I think that's maybe my favourite part of this little sequence a minute into the vid, because that blurring feels like Alicia's life at this point to me.
"And it's bending your will, like a willow tree twisting, trying to regain it's form" is one of my favourite lines. I know what kind of footage I’d use here if it was a pilots video. But even if it’s not, my vision remains the similar. TGW is flashy enough for me to show it. That “willow tree twisting” is Alicia’s live mind, working out it’s familiar patterns; her tendency to overweigh and take too many things into consideration. The blurring effect I chose to use highlights how *changes* make her reality reveal it’s true face, how wrong she was in assuming that her idealistic picture of Peter and their life together would be one unshakable thing defining her sense of stability and well-being. It doesn’t matter if it’s Peter or anyone else - the very idea of a firm life with anyone is potentially destructive.
Is that a deliberate echo I sense… the idea that past happiness might have been one thing, but that the same feelings for Alicia are happening again, only around Will?
I’m not sure it’s the same feelings. It’s been how long since they last saw each other? Under what circumstances did they go their separate ways? I think we’re allowed to speculate. Clearly Peter used to represent a whole world for Alicia, and once it got shattered she had to redefine her frame of reference, painfully… I think many things changed over the last couple of years. There’s an old saying stating that true affection is not to be affected. In this specific sequence I was trying to show how the very meaning of affection shifted for Alicia - it’s less blind and much more self-centered now, it allows her to see Will’s true nature, not the idea of him, not those wonderful expectation she probably used to have about her future life with Peter.
What works equally well for me is the way you explore the lyric "and you can rebuild, or conform" by mixing footage of Will and Alicia with that of Peter and Alicia… and the house where it was revealed that what the police at first thought was truth was in fact a lie.
Hee! I’m glad it works ‘cause I spent a lot of time trying to work out how to make it flow the way I want, since these words are quintessential in Change.
I think that more than anything I was trying to show the impact the whole thing had *on her* - and no slap can do that, only the repercussions like circles on the water. Which is why the moment right after makes for a good visual opening in Change.
The initial "I should look after your heart" is one of those sections of the vid that really works for me
I'm very glad it does. Kalinda seems to appear almost OOC when she gently pushes the door closed to ask Alicia what's wrong and if she needs help :) Such a parental gesture!
...but it really feels here as if you're building up to two of the things that are going to be huge struggles for Alicia, making them look deceptively languid through shots that feel lingering in comparison to the fast clips
I wanted the viewer to keep that fresh perspective the show presents with each of it's episodes, the sense of realistic if somewhat slow plot development and Alicia's inner world complexity. She carries around so much hurt and anger inside, so many thoughts that may be both destructive and positively changing. How many viewers sensed the importance of Will's presence at the firm from the get-go (if we try seeing things through Alicia's POV I mean)? I don't know, but I wasn't about to rush into anything in Change either, wanted to keep it as close to canon as possible.
I think that's maybe my favourite part of this little sequence a minute into the vid, because that blurring feels like Alicia's life at this point to me.
"And it's bending your will, like a willow tree twisting, trying to regain it's form" is one of my favourite lines. I know what kind of footage I’d use here if it was a pilots video. But even if it’s not, my vision remains the similar. TGW is flashy enough for me to show it. That “willow tree twisting” is Alicia’s live mind, working out it’s familiar patterns; her tendency to overweigh and take too many things into consideration. The blurring effect I chose to use highlights how *changes* make her reality reveal it’s true face, how wrong she was in assuming that her idealistic picture of Peter and their life together would be one unshakable thing defining her sense of stability and well-being. It doesn’t matter if it’s Peter or anyone else - the very idea of a firm life with anyone is potentially destructive.
Is that a deliberate echo I sense… the idea that past happiness might have been one thing, but that the same feelings for Alicia are happening again, only around Will?
I’m not sure it’s the same feelings. It’s been how long since they last saw each other? Under what circumstances did they go their separate ways? I think we’re allowed to speculate.
Clearly Peter used to represent a whole world for Alicia, and once it got shattered she had to redefine her frame of reference, painfully… I think many things changed over the last couple of years. There’s an old saying stating that true affection is not to be affected. In this specific sequence I was trying to show how the very meaning of affection shifted for Alicia - it’s less blind and much more self-centered now, it allows her to see Will’s true nature, not the idea of him, not those wonderful expectation she probably used to have about her future life with Peter.
What works equally well for me is the way you explore the lyric "and you can rebuild, or conform" by mixing footage of Will and Alicia with that of Peter and Alicia… and the house where it was revealed that what the police at first thought was truth was in fact a lie.
Hee! I’m glad it works ‘cause I spent a lot of time trying to work out how to make it flow the way I want, since these words are quintessential in Change.
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