'Relativity', What and why I edited the scene the way I did.

With this scene I really wanted to express the relationship between the mother and daughter. I did this by barely including the boyfriend at all. When we hear his voice I stay with the mother and daughter as they share a joke and he gets angry about it. I increased the volume on this to reinforce his anger at the daughter. I used a close-up on the mothers eyes as she rolls them to show she is playing with her daughter, siding with her and telling her to ignore him. The moment that the boyfriend is shown had to be included as this was the only footage I had so the audience can recognise his presence in the room. I then revert back to only showing the boyfriends lips kissing the mothers head. As he does this he slams the daughters cereal on the desk, completely ignoring her. I increased the sound on this to intensify this fact.
Finally when the mother gets up to leave and the daughter grabs her hand I chose to use close-ups as I believe this expresses the daughters emotionally need for the mother significantly. The shots through the fish bowl after this increase these emotions by magnifying the daughters need for some attention and the mothers rejection.