Week 7 - Jurassic Park

All five of my "Five Master Edit" videos for week seven are from one of my favorite movies; the original 1992 Jurassic Park!

This first video clip shows a crew of archaeologists excavating a several million year old T-rex fossil near the beginning of the movie, witch is then tied to the second part of this clip with the T-rex roaring in the Jurassic Park visitor building after he killed 2 raptors near the end of the movie.  The type of editing technique that I felt most represented this scene was the use of parallelism since the viewer can see and think how the dinosaurs transformed from harmless fossils left over from millions of years ago to creatures of death in the movie. 

This second video clip shows the difference between how three of the lead characters were stranded out in the jungle with dinosaurs during the night, while the other two lead characters were sitting inside eating ice-cream talking about their past lives.  Both of these scenes were occurring at the same time as well.  I felt the technique of contrast fit this clip the best since both groups of people shown are in such different locations and comfort zones at the same time, which almost consciously stimulates the viewer to think about how each group of people differ so much based on their situation.

In this scene form Jurassic Park, I chose to show how Malcolm sees the rippling of water from the T-rex's thunderous foot steps as it approaches, which foreshadows the T-rex bursting out of the woods ready to eat everyone just as they escape in the Jeep.  For this scene, the main theme of symbolism was a key component to the way the viewer looks at this scene since the rippling water represents the approach of the enormous T-rex in the movie.   

My second to last scene shows two of Jurassic Park's most iconic scenes where the Jurassic Park theme song is playing in both of them.  The theme of leit motif is a very strong fit for these two scenes since they both use the same music which connects the viewer to the Jurassic Park movie whenever they hear it.  

My final clip shows the two separate scenes where Dr.Satler is resetting the park's security and electrical fences, while at the same time three of the main cast members must climb over one of the electrical fences Satler is in the progress of turning on. This scene was a very good representation of simultaneity since both scenes in this clip are tied together through the similarity of Satler having to turn the electricity on to the fence that the three main cast members must climb over.