Translating could be considered that putting yourself in a creator position. You translate the text into images, sound, or even smells through your brain by reading a novel. You translate the actions and facial expressions of a person into messages. The translation is happening all the time unconsciously.
Generally, the important part of the film was translated by actor or actress from screenwriting through acting if the theme is human-related. In the Before Sunrise clip, the BGM arises the emotion of the actor and actress and translates the emotion into action.
Discovers:
- The body language of the complexity emotion of shyness, fear of being seen and judge, hidden feeling, the restrained attraction.
- The music and the lyrics here speak out the emotion of the characters, and they are the lines of this scene.
- As the audience, what is the psychology of empathy and crush.
Experiment 1:
Translate from video to a book, which changes the linen narrative situation and allow the audience to create their own narrative.
Experiment 2:
Translate from images to context, take away the time, detailize the emotion, movement and surroundings of the story, allow the audience to create the video by themselves in their head.
Experiment 3:
Translate from physical experience to virtual experience. Thinking of the long-distance relationship or online dating in this pandemic era. Parodying the “eye contact” with myself, the lagging internet connection naturally creates desynchrony eye contact.