u/wojciechtubaja

I’m working on a short film built around a monologue and considering a two-channel structure.

I’m not interested in split-screen as a visual trick, but more as a way to create tension between two images.

The problem I keep running into:

• if both images illustrate the same thing → it feels dead

• if they’re too unrelated → it feels random

I’m trying to find that point where the second image actually reframes the first.

Do you have examples where this really works?

Or is this something that usually ends up feeling forced?

This is more about editing language and structure, not a technical issue.