The Coalition

Watching Donny Darko and drawing inspiration from Richard Kelly (the director), to get ideas about how to shoot a successful piece, which has the same concept, and evil imaginary friend. I drew quite a lot of inspiration from this film and found the following quite useful.
- Firstly, although we have an idea of how to introduce the imaginary friend using the contra zoom, this is proving quite difficult and may not be possible, so a second choice is always useful to have whilst filming. When the film director introduces the bunny, (the imaginary friend. he uses a close up of the main character, and uses a reverse mid shot to introduce 'frank' (the imaginary friend). he also uses a fade in between the reverse shot, and the bunny appears briefly on Donny's face, which signifies extremely well to the audience that this character is all in Donny's mind. (discussion: first scene)




- Secondly he montage was quite helpful,  i would like to use ideas from this, during our montage during the editing process. Firstly the choice in music, caught my attention, the lyrics spoke about time, if we could find a piece of music, which spoke about time, and tempo worked well with our montage it would be perfect, so I am going to do some research into this. Secondly in this particular scene, they use.............which is effective because it give the film a sense an edge, also quite dreamlike, so the reality seems to be quite messes up as Donny’s head, which is a clever way of helping the audience understand and experience the character’s mind. Both factors i would like to use in the montage, i will discuss this with my group and hopefully come to a decision, using these ideas and any which they may have had