Thanks again to Adam for doing all the editing in our film and creating an excellent final cut. Yesterday in class was the first time I had seen the entire video and I was very impressed!
Anyways, the project was really fun to finally put together. The group met multiple times discussing different ideas and plans for our movie, but the final idea was not put in stone until our last group meeting before filming. The final idea was to create a film that was based upon the relationship between the author and reader. With Nabokov, reading his works can be like trying to solve a difficult chess problem, one that must be tried over and over again until one can truly get it. In the beginning of our film, we had scenes of Nabokov and the reader, as well as a chess board, to show the direct relationship between all three elements. We start with Nabokov writing on the notecards, and moving a chess piece to start the problem. This idea was that Nabokov beginning writing was like creating a problem that would later have to be solved by the reader, which is why Nabokov also moved a chess piece on the board in this same scene. Then, as the reader opened her book, the chess piece moved itself, showing the idea that her "problem" had just began as well. This idea is a little tricky to get out in words, so I hope I explained it right, and that is helps out a bit. The acting scenes from our film were moments from the novels read that group memebers felt stood out, especially with our theme being chess. The king going down into the trap door seemed almost like a jigsaw yesterday after watching it in class,which I found very fitting. It almost seemed like a "problem" for the King to get into Sam's basement ;) as well as being very entertaining. (great job joan!) All in all, it was a very fun group project to work on and the final movie turned out better than my original expectations.
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