After the tutorial last Friday I realised there was still a lot I had to do. The busy narrative seemed to be too packed, leaving barely any breathing space for the people watching. I was also unhappy with my voice, so I re-recorded the whole script from beginning.
I also made the decision to get rid of one part. The new narrative was now: part one (the intro and my grandmother's stories), the baltic way and part two (the real stories). I found that having a sort of interlude allowed the film to be much easier to process. Previously I had packed it too full of information, almost making it into a short documentary instead of an experimental film. Thankfully I realised this early enough to change its structure.
For the titles I decided to go for white and yellow, which were the colours on the cover of the old English - Latvian dictionary I had. For the opening title, I made sure we could see the red, white, red through it as those are the colours of Latvia's flag.
For the subtitles I went for yellow, as where shots would be lighter white would be impossible to see and I wanted a consistency within the film.
The two shots above are actually my favourite ones as one is shot by me for the Forest Brothers story, and the other one is taken from the archives, and it happened unintentionally but I placed my white flower on a mirror and dripped some red ink on it, only to then realise that the archive featured a shot of red flowers on wet ground that reflected their image. I thought that was really quite powerful.
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