IDD 400 - Analysis of "Role Reversal"

This week is a short promo piece for the show "Role Reversal" done by Spark for A&E. This a simple/clean looking piece that has a lot of things moving about on the screen to keep with the upbeat music. Starting off in the center is a what looks like a window with two people standing in it. One man and one woman. The frames of the window break their bodies into 4 sections for each body. During this clip the different sections are changing very rapidly.

The rapidly changing sections include extremely short video clips as well as stills. The text for "Role Reversal" appears a couple of times off to the left side of this window with some of the letters being reversed. As the clip continues the window with the changing sections hops to the left a little to make it off center. Going through the changing sections are several small thin bars that are moving from side to side. In these bars are the changing clips as well. This effect was easily achieved with a moving matte.

In the lower corner about half way through the clip a smaller version of the window with the changing sections appears. This was done by having the larger one be its own composition and embedding it twice into the main composition. With the other one scaled down to a very small size. Having this off to the side keeps the piece balanced well.