After watching Boyhood this weekend I felt that there was one scene in
particular in which its editing really allowed the audience to feel what Mason
was going through when he left home for the first time to start his freshman
year at college. The scene starts out with a very open shot of a very long,
quite road, with miles and miles of desert and mountains. I feel that his alone
speaks to the storyline of the scene because its represents the road of the unknown
in which Mason is about to experience. The possible opportunities are undetermined
and are endless for him and I think this shot alone shows how scary and unsettling
it is to start a new chapter of your life on your own for the first time ever. The
scene continues and focuses in on Mason’s truck, all his belongings in the
trunk, and then continues to go in and out of Mason inside of the truck and
then his surroundings. Throughout his trip, you see how empty his surroundings
are, how he’s alone, and how big the world really is when you leave home and
are really alone for the first time in your life, with no parents or familiar
faces. For the most part the frames are pretty wide in this scene and I think
that was intended to make the audience feel as if they were moving on with
Mason and to help evoke the same feelings in which he too may be feeling at
this particular time in his life.
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