Journal+Entry+3+-+Postmodern+Film

Postmodern film is a recently developing style of filming, and it is well known for taking traditional film rules and breaking them. There are many different techniques in postmodern film that can be incorporated into my group’s Lemonade Stand film.

No absolute truth: one main recurring ideology in postmodern film is this idea that there is no certainty in the world, which plays to the idea of how the world is an alternate and twisted reality of our current lives. In Lemonade Stand, we were planning on playing with the idea of whether Hugs is hallucinating or not, and we could possibly film it in a way that made Herbert a figment of Hugs’ imagination. This would be playing with the idea of whether Hugs is reaching this point of insanity where he dreams up of this competition, and how Herbert represents the success Hugs wished he had with his lemonade stand.

Choices and personal perception of reality: In postmodern films, characters are forced to make life-changing choices that change the whole course of their future. These usually consist of two extremes that contradict each other so only one path can be chosen. In the end of our film, Hugs has to choose between being selfish and feeling satisfied with how he drove away Herbert, or to throw away this old self and find a new life by collaborating with Herbert and finding a friend in the lonely desolate post apocalyptic world.

Normal lifestyle, with a twist: Postmodern films are similar in a way that they portray the protagonist in a regular life, and shift around some aspects to make it strange and out of place. Usually, they live normal lives until they stumble upon something else that changes their life, like the discovery of the portal in Being John Malkovich caused Craig to change the way he uses his puppeteering. In Lemonade Stand, we are using a similar style, where Hugs has a normal lifestyle with his business in the post apocalyptic world, but when Herbert shows up Hugs has to adapt and change the way he acts in order to be raised to a higher level.