As all creators know, the creative process is like both a search party and waiting to fall asleep: sometimes creators need to be active, going out and looking around other media in order to find it, and sometimes creators need to just lie down and wait for inspiration to find them. My partner, Lisa, and I have been hoping for a little bit of both.
With faith, trust, and pixie dust, we have been given inspiration and were able to determine pretty much the entire outline for the film. However, we hadn't been so lucky with our style of filming, the mood for the opening scenes, or how to present the information. Since the impetus for our main character's actions is another character's death, we know we will need to be sensitive, but do we want a "rip off the band-aid" kind of scene or a "slow and ambiguous" kind of scene?
So, like many people our age, we turned to the Internet.
The first example is a short film called My Name is Lisa. It has a "home video" feel, despite it's fictitious narrative, which Lisa and I both enjoy for at least part of our film. Except we don't want to use this style for the first part when the character kills herself because it doesn't fit the mood.
The second media we have looked at is the first four minutes of the movie Harold and Maude. We like the understated feel of this scene, and I kind of like that you never see the person's face, but I'm not sure that's the best option.
But, hey, we're making progress.
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