Because I’m going to do an experimental film, the film is actually not narrative and has no story development, but if there is no logic, how can the audience understand the emotions I want to express? This problem has bothered me for a long time.

In screen project 1, I made a narrative video, and cooperated with voice-over to clarify the story and some of my own subjective views, but this time is completely different. I want people to reflect on the special period of 2020, which stole one year from our lives, and also let people generate emotional fluctuations through media aesthetics. However, until I finished filming footage and did a series of Pr editing attempts, I still felt that my content was quite a mess, and I couldn’t make sense of my intentions at all. This also began to worry me that I could not convey my emotions to the audience. For an experimental film, narrative and video quality may not be that important, but it is the key to convey emotion or a kind of thinking to the audience.

Fortunately, when I searched for some experimental videos on youtube, some of the short films really gave me the inspiration for editing. These works are not masterpieces, and I even suspect that they are the works from students who did the similar majors as ours. Their works are simple but easy to understand and also very cool.

The inspiration from these two films is: ‘play the material in reverse’ and ‘mix the material and speed up’. For a time-themed film, I think that once the water, which is seen as the carrier of time flows backwards, it indicates that time is going backwards, just like in many detective dramas, reversing the video is used to flash back to the scene of the crime scene. I believe that the intention of playing the material in reverse of the video is easy to understand. The second is to speed up the footage. Once the mixed material speeds up, it will create a kind of chaos, and it will also drive up the mood. Once the audience has mood swings, the creative purpose of my experimental film can also be regarded as half success. So in the second half of my film, I nested 9 footage and played them at 200%, 400% or even 800% speed to create a chaotic feeling.