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 Lucy Guo - Director's Project Assignment #6




 * || Techniques & Iconic Examples your director would be known for || Example || How can you emulate this in your film? ||
 * Cinematography || Artistic/surreal shots, earthy+natural imagery || * The first shot from //In The Cut// (bathroom scene)
 * Shots of the royal garden from //The Portrait of a Lady// || * Shots of beautiful and earthy park life ||
 * Editing || Editing in many animations/dreams/illusions to show confusion both for the character and the audience || * Isabel’s dream about Osmond’s love confession from //The Portrait of a Lady// || * Dreams/illusions about childhood memories (? need to expand later) ||
 * Lighting || Either very warm or extremely cold || * In //The Piano//, This usually varies between characters (e.g. Ada+Alistair or Ada+daughter have warmer shots, but Ada+George have extremely dull-looking cold shots) || * Highly saturated memories of Bob ||
 * Sound || Instrumental (usually piano) tunes that reflect the mood || * Most scenes from //The Piano//, e.g. when Ada’s simply ghosting her fingers over the keys. ||  ||
 * Mise-en-scene || Independent/stubborn females || * Ada, from //The Piano//, refuses to obey anything she doesn’t believe in
 * Fanny, from //Bright Star//, is independent, and she stands up for herself even if love is at risk. || - Have a female main character ||
 * Performance || The females would usually seem very apathetic and very independent || - Frannie, from //In The Cut//, doesn’t seem to care much about anything except phrases she finds interesting || - Main female character who’s very independent and stubborn. ||

> > Write a treatment (short summary) for the film that you are going to shoot. Be sure to connect the ideas and theme in your chart to your story:
 * I’ll use very vivid coloring for the memories
 * Especially red/orange coloring for Megan and Bob’s first kiss.
 * At first, the memories of Bob will be normal colored, and more and more saturated as their relationship goes on, and start getting really un-saturated when they start fighting.
 * I’m keeping what happened after Megan and Bob’s breakup ambiguous, left to the audience’s imagination
 * I’ll add native-sounding (e.g. Massive Attack, maybe?) music in the background of the more intense shots (especially the first kiss scene, the coffee-shop scene, and the fighting part).
 * Contrast between good/bad. I can show this from both of them wearing light-colored clothes at first, but Bob starts wearing darker and darker clothes towards the end, while Megan still wears light-ish clothes. The lighting can also have Bob in the darker side/shadows.
 * I’m tempted to try to have a Jane Campion homage related to optical illusions (e.g. having one shape/item appearing over and over again throughout the film) but if I do, I’ll definitely have to choose a specific shape/item to use, and to make sure it’s symbolic enough.
 * The idea of choosing the WRONG GUY at first and then the RIGHT GUY in the end OHOHOHO