The Start of an Ending is a side-by-side comparison of the opening and closing shots of 75 films. It’s based on similar videos by Jacob T Swinney, which inspired me to create my own using new films. It’s a very visual homage to filmmaking, cinematography and editing, because it provides a peek at what is possible when filmmakers devote themselves to visual storytelling. Moving images are incredibly powerful and convey a very wide range of meanings and emotions, but what is even much more powerful is the relationship between several moving images (or frames). This is the reason why editing is one of the most important aspects of cinema, because it is through the comparison of various images that we understand what a movie is trying to say. In my video, some frames are incredibly similar, some are very different, some show progress, others decline, but all of them teach us something about this great art that is cinema. Finally, I’d like to point out that the selection is not based on the value of the movies per se (although many of them are great masterpieces, and almost all of them are great films) but on the power of the comparison between the first and last frames.
Author Biography
Miguel Faus is a 23 year-old business graduate from Barcelona; he divides his time between his internship as a copywriter at an ad agency and his undergraduate program in Humanities. He’s passionate about films and is a contributing author at Jot Down Magazine, where he tries to figure out why he loves the films he loves.
