Before we first started anything we have been given a stimulus on which we were supposed to try and base our film on. This stimulus was crisis. We came up with a list of thoughts and feelings we associated with it. I came up with a range of different things, the first thing being midlife crisis, e.g. a man that has reached a certain stage of his life and realizing he hasn’t achieved everything he wanted to achieve in life and that it is now too late. Another response was identity crisis where the person is uncertain who he is and wants to discover him. Family crisis was another one and food crisis but also less associated things like ‘Infinite crisis’, which is a storyline in the DC universe came to mind. The feelings I associated with crisis were feelings of not in control of things, lost, pain, danger and anxiety.
We then tried coming up with stories based on them themes we came up with. Me and my coursework partner started first with an idea based on the terrorism crisis which Britain still fears, and came up with a man being attacked and hold hostage by terrorists, however exploring he’s life and building up a relationship between the person and the viewer who can connect with that person due to the fact that everyone has this fear now. We then decided to explore maybe a person’s relationship with his older brother to whom he looked up to all his life and who’s been injured in the war and is now a cripple and therefore a mere shadow of the hero self. We found this idea very intriguing because it allowed us to explore the inner conflict of someone trying to be like a person who isn’t that person anymore and has to maybe think about the possibility that his hero was following a path of doom. However even though the idea seemed very promising we decided to go with a story, which was based on true events that had happened to a real person. This was because it was more personal and therefore we could put in more emotion into it then a story, which we just made up. This story is about a woman who had to spent 48 hours next to her comatose husband without knowing whether he would ever wake up or not. We also decided to add in flashbacks showing how he has ended up in this stage and all the information we received is based on what the real life person has told us.
When writing the script the film that inspired me the most was ‘Requiem for a Dream’ by Darren Aronovski. This was because the way they approached a crisis and communicated it to the audience I regard as very effective and we have adapted some of the style and filming techniques used into our own film.
Before we first started anything we have been given a stimulus on which we were supposed to try and base our film on. This stimulus was crisis. We came up with a list of thoughts and feelings we associated with it. I came up with a range of different things, the first thing being midlife crisis, e.g. a man that has reached a certain stage of his life and realizing he hasn’t achieved everything he wanted to achieve in life and that it is now too late. Another response was identity crisis where the person is uncertain who he is and wants to discover him. Family crisis was another one and food crisis but also less associated things like ‘Infinite crisis’, which is a storyline in the DC universe came to mind. The feelings I associated with crisis were feelings of not in control of things, lost, pain, danger and anxiety.
We then tried coming up with stories based on them themes we came up with. Me and my coursework partner started first with an idea based on the terrorism crisis which Britain still fears, and came up with a man being attacked and hold hostage by terrorists, however exploring he’s life and building up a relationship between the person and the viewer who can connect with that person due to the fact that everyone has this fear now. We then decided to explore maybe a person’s relationship with his older brother to whom he looked up to all his life and who’s been injured in the war and is now a cripple and therefore a mere shadow of the hero self. We found this idea very intriguing because it allowed us to explore the inner conflict of someone trying to be like a person who isn’t that person anymore and has to maybe think about the possibility that his hero was following a path of doom. However even though the idea seemed very promising we decided to go with a story, which was based on true events that had happened to a real person. This was because it was more personal and therefore we could put in more emotion into it then a story, which we just made up. This story is about a woman who had to spent 48 hours next to her comatose husband without knowing whether he would ever wake up or not. We also decided to add in flashbacks showing how he has ended up in this stage and all the information we received is based on what the real life person has told us.
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