Film 2

The editing in my clip really shows the ability of a director to show a fairly complex idea with only repitition of simple techniques. The director uses many alternating shots to show the transition from one memory to another. The change is subtle at first, a brief cut to a small boy playing in a puddle. The boy sings "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," which is then played over the entire scene to provide adhesive to the transition. Even the characters begin to sing the song to signal the transition.

Then pieces of each memory begin to overlap into the scenes. The bike begins in the young boy's bike makes its first appearance in the young boy's scene. The bike then appears in the other scene, in the apartment. The shot begins on Joel, the protagonist, and then pans to the bike, creating a sort of normalcy for the bike's presence.

Then other pieces begin to overlap. The table that the older Joel crawls under mirrors the shed that the younger Joel plays under in the rain. It starts raining inside Joel's aparment to mirror his memory of that other day as well. Strangely, the scene takes another turn when the table apparently sparks a different memory of when Joel was four. The table becomes the kitchen table. Several alternating shots begin to overlap these two scenes together, creating a nicely choreographed dance between two very contrasting scenes.