To live or Die
To be or Not to be
In the first video the setting was by the ocean and the video was in black and white. The effect this has is it has an lonely feeling or sort of a mystery. The director is trying to convey a life or death situation. The music got more intense as Hamlet went deeper into what he was saying. The lighting was day time but the fact that the video was black and white it already gave an effect to it. The figurative aspects of this video was Hamlet was sitting by the ocean in reference to what he says in his speech "Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and opposing end them?". The emotion was moderate in time to me he wasn't really over dramatic.
The second video the setting was in an underground catacone. The director was conveying death because Hamelt was surrounded by skeletons on buried people. The music wasn't really intense in this one but the actor was. He brought out every ounce of emotion he had in that scene. This was one of the most overly dramatic scenes out all four videos we observed. The figurative aspects was in the beginning when Hamlet said, "To live or to die" and the cameras turned to the skeletons.
In the third video the setting was in a mansion/castle it was one of the brightest or up lifting scenery. The video started off with Hamlet looking in the mirror as he was talking to his inner self. The director was conveying life or death was in a lighter time because of the scenery. What I favored about this video clip is that it flashed back to his dad a little bit as he was making his speech. Also something else we didn't see in the other videos is that Polonious and Colonious was watching him through the mirror as he was talking to himself.
Lastly in the fourth video the setting was at night time but in blockbuster which game it a semi- modern feeling we can relate too. Hamlet was walking through the action section videos which I thought was very clever. The TV added an effect to what he was saying because it was flames of fire on the screen when he stared talking about death. This wasn't my favorite scene in this specific video but it was good to see the originality in all the videos. All four videos had there own vision of what Hamlet spoke about.
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