Whilst editing today I was playing around with three pieces of footage that were intended to be used as part of an action match sequence. The action match involved Rosie going in from the left side of the screen to pick up her full glass of wine. The clip would cut three times, each time the shot would be zoomed further into the action, moving from a medium shot to medium close up to finally a close up shot of Rosie's hand on the glass.
I played around with cutting the clips on the editing timeline trying to achieve the perfect cut so that the shots flowed smoothly. However, the action match just ended up looking jumpy and didn't add any significant effect to the overall sequence. I wanted to achieve a sense of alcohol abuse with this action match. Since I wanted to represent Rosie as a stereo-typically 'alcohol obsessed' teenager, I wanted to use the image of the wine glass as a symbolic representation of her addiction- however it became clear after multiple attempts to try and cut the shots together that this was not going to be achieved through an action match.
As a result we decided it would be unnecessary to include an action match for the sake of using an action match in the sequence and instead I will just use a singular shot Rosie collecting the wine glass in order to show her addiction. I may also play around with this and experiment to see whether it would be effective to repeat this imagery multiple times within the shoot, but we will see after the first rough cut has been produced.
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