Trying out surrealism... EVALUATION: How does your film conform to the conventions of the film movement you chose? The film movement i chose was surrealism, the conventions of surrealism are an unconventional narrative, juxtaposition for disturbing effect, minimal characterisation and the stimulus is normally dreams and desires. Firstly i decided to have an unconventional narrative, i did this through editing. I made sure there was very little to no continuity to enhance the effect of the lack of narrative. I could have possibly made it even more of a uncanny narrative by introducing different props and ideas. Instead of having normal mundane food in the picnic basket there could have been a dead bird or I could have include more dubious shots such as a random pig on a bed however i thought with the shot of the boy on the picnic blanket being the same in the beginning of the film as in the ending it would reflect a dream like interpretation as it is almost ...
final idea - Everyday this boy takes a pill to stop his nightmares - or that is what he thought - The man has to take his pill at "9" everyday but takes it late - at "11"one day and Instead of going from the good to the bad quite drastically, i could possibly build it up by the man doing his normal routine e.g. going on a run and then he sees a corpse for a split second, then a shot of his face and then the shot goes back to where the corpse was but its gone. i could possibly shoot a scene where we see what is happening through the mans eyes but then cross cut it with what is reality - Then the next day he could decide not to take it and he has the major nightmare where everything goes wrong and he is finally able to see what is happening in reality that the pill just suppresses him from seeing what is happening in real life. Wakes up in nightmare - Walks outside normal Sees ...
Bus Stop Montage We were given a task to create a montage with the given stimulus of waiting for a bus at a bus stop. Our inspiration came from the rocky and Up montage.
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