Our thriller will be in a social realist style, so none of the situations are glamorised- we want to portray a harsh reality which heightens verisimilitude. Some of our influences include Shifty, a social realist film about a lower-class drug dealer and the relationships he has with friends, family and clients, and Fishtank, another social realist film that follows the life of a young girl. We hope to achieve this tone with a combination of mise-en-scene to define the characters and their backgrounds, and non-diegetic and diegetic sound that will be stronger and quieter in certain places to create tension but also empathy for the characters.
For the first flashback, shot in the golden hour in the café with the two characters, there will be no non-diegetic sound which will make it very melancholic and nostalgic, but also like there's something wrong with this memory.
For the first flashback, shot in the golden hour in the café with the two characters, there will be no non-diegetic sound which will make it very melancholic and nostalgic, but also like there's something wrong with this memory.
Our inspiration will be taken from many places such as Shutter Island and The Virgin Suicides. The golden hour scenes in both of these are the sort of lighting states we hope to re-create, but Shutter Island shows a particularly strong contrast between the golden, ethereal past and the bleak, dark present.
For our second flashback scene in red, we love the use of red semiotics in the film We Need To Talk About Kevin. The colour red may also be used in our locations in the house, but this is yet to be confirmed, however we definitely want to use it for the flashback to give it a stylised tone, and connote danger, blood and death.
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