Guillermo del Toro films:

Guillermo del Toro is known for his coloured lighting. One of the colours he uses is blue, such as in Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devils Backbone. I would also like to use blue lighting to emphasise the sci-fi theme as well as to seperate the imaginary world (blue) to the real world. I used coloured lighting in my AS short film because of the connotations of the colour red and it as one of my favourite parts of mise en scene and cinemtatohgraphy that I used and so I would like to use it again. Plus, my love for the use of lighting specifically coloured lighting in movies.

Birdman and Beasts of the Southern Wild :

I’d like to use fairy lights as I think they evoke a lot of emotion as well as being beautiful to look at. Some films that does this are Beasts of the Southern Wild and Birdman, they can engulf the screen, I would like that in my film. I plan on using it to make it seem magical like, as I want to deck her reading closet in fairy lights where she imagines herself watching a tape from her future self after being prompted from the book. I’d also like to use fairy lights on the stairs when she is walking in the imaginary world to the TV because of the magical and hopeful theme it provides.

Good Time:

I’d like to use the device of a close up/extreme close up of my protagonist’s eyes to open and close the imaginary sequence in order to show the audience that it’s imaginary. Plus, there’s the meaning around eyes being ‘the windows to the soul’ and so using her eyes emphasises her desires that she has for life. Good Time uses specifically two eye close-ups to evoke particular emotions as well, I think it was really well used to sum up the reality of the scene.