The video is about the everyday life of a working girl who travels every day from home to her work and back home in a metro. Through this video clip, I am trying to show her monotonous journey that she has to cover, her wait, and all the walking she has to do every day.Throughout the video, the perspective keeps shifting between what the cameraman sees and what the girl sees. There is continuous motion and it seems like it is never ending even when she reaches back home. Most of the video is shot at the Grand Central Station and parts of it are from the Union Square station. The sounds of the metro, the footsteps and the mumbling of the crowd are something that the girl goes through every day and gives the audience a first-hand experience of being there with the girl, following her.
These three scenes are essential to the video clip and are seen both at the beginning and end of the video. The loud beep sounds that are repeated creates an atmosphere of the train station. Repetition of these clips shows monotony.
Using of blurred effects of various different angles of the same event shows the extended period of time and her wait.
Using the multi video effects helped show a series of repeated actions of the girl getting out and helped create the monotonous effect. Fast Forward and slow motion create prolonged periods of time and focus on the clips that are more important.
The reverse effect with a long gap help show how the girl has left the station and comes back to the station after work. This gap is shown with a few second black gap. Throughout the video additive and cross dissolves are used to make transitions between the clips.
The video starts and ends with the same motion of the subway doors closing. The girl walks down towards the ticket counter, refilling her metro card and walking down the stairs. At this point, a transition between the two stations have already occurred and the girl has reached the Grand Central Station. The girl’s journey is shown through merging different frames of her continuous walking.The girl waiting on her phone shows her wait period. There is continuous walking throughout the video which is captured from her legs, her pushing doors and moving with crowds of people. There are few instances where we see the station from her perspective. For instance looking at the clocks for time and moving in the revolving door. The second half of the video is the girl coming back into the Grand Central to go back home. Similar scenes of walking and swiping the cards are shown to see the monotony of the journey. The audience only see the metro for the first time in the video now. Here scenes of her rushing through the crowds and finding a seat in the metro are seen. The next frame has a shift from the videographers perspective to the girl’s perspective where they see that she has finally reached back to the Union Square station. The frame shifts again to the audience seeing the girl going up the stairs and back to the real world from the “underground” world as the doors of the metro shut again!
