L'amore Rosat

This is a video I just made. It was an idea.... perhaps the intro to something a bit longer. Hope you enjoy it! L'amore Rosat; or rather Love Rose was an idea that came to me about two weeks before I shot the film. The title is poetic; it is derived from an old French poem by the same name. After the opening title L'amore Rosat one would assume the theme presented would be something about love. Love is a clichéd theme and it is one that I was hesitant to use at first, were it not for certain incidents in my life preceding the making of this short film. Love or unconditional love rather, is the emotion I was trying to convey. People who watched the film gave me varied responses. Some saw the guitar as my musical side and the rose as my artistic side. The man with the guitar was active, constantly on the go, fidgety. At times he glanced at the man with the rose—confused for a moment—oblivious the next. The man with the rose was focused, he had a purpose: fixing the broken rose. The rose is a motif that symbolizes life, a broken life. The expository shot presents the broken rose on top of a guitar; the guitar being a metaphor for happiness and spontaneity. As the camera zooms in, we get a cross fade into what will be the primary frame for the next minute, where the two characters interact. Why did I choose to play the action in reverse? Because it's odd; it's fascinating: just as the act of unconditional love is abnormal, fascinating. The rose did not need to be fixed, but it was. The rose was useless, but the man mended the flower, restoring its beauty once possessed. The film ends in a recap shot of what we saw at the beginning: the rose on the guitar; this time, the rose is fixed. On the technical side, all action had to be storyboarded, not so much for the camera as it was for me as the actor. Using a still camera shot, the action was played out and then cropped in the editing stage to play out both characters side by side. The changing sunlight presented me with some light continuity issues. The gamma on the left side of the screen had to be adjusted to match in the post production stage.