Authentic Swing Open Viewing 2

The first thing that struck me on watching this video was how much the scene resembled a piece of music. There is certainly music involved (which is a piece in and of itself), but I refer to the entire audiovisual experience as being a piece.

Soundtrack-wise, the build is clear once the music comes in. It starts softly, builds to a moment of climax, and then near the end it almost entirely disappears. However, looking at the dialogue, the sounds of the night, the sound effects, and the synthesized ambient noises, the build is even more obvious. We start with just the night sounds, and slowly add in the dialogue (which is, even content-wise, light). The sound effects are light as well. The next thing to be added are the ambient, sweeping sounds that we would never expect to hear in nature, occurring when the dialogue moves to the more mystic content. Throughout, the sounds all build, adding a moment of layering of all the elements and even one of the actor's voices, adding both intensity (in terms of volume) and intensity (in terms of feeling).

Visually, we experience the same build. The scene starts relatively stationary, movement is added, and then we focus on one element, which gains more and more importance as the dialogue enhances it. Eventually, we come to a point where we get a visual feast of images of the night, including landscapes, a cricket silhouette, and the moon, and the scene ends with a focus on the young boy, back to the relatively stationary feel of the beginning.