Film Research - Charlotte

Another film from which we'd like to take inspiration is American Beauty as it follows a lot of the same themes of our short film - infatuation, obsession, and also involves dream sequences that we can use to help us develop our ideas for our dream sequences that occur throughout our film. This scene of American Beauty in particular is very inspiring;

The symbolism of the rose petals I think is particularly beautiful, and the shots of them falling on him in bed is inspiring to us and the development of our film - all of it is in his imagination, which is what we want to make obvious in our film.

Obviously the mise en scene of the first shot is particularly challenging, but we can include some elements of this sequence in our film (eg the colours and lighting) and use it as inspiration. I really like how this scene is in slow motion, as it gives a really strange, surreal feeling to the film - we could use this technique in our dream sequences to make them seem more bizarre.