The Dead Hold the Key and The Big Lebowski

For the last week I have been thinking and jotting notes on what I think should be part of my directors statement and notes. After going through the script and coming up with some shots, I then watched 'The Big Lebowski' (Which Daan had talked about in class that day) which I believe to be similar to our film in several ways. The first of which are some aspects of Jeff Bridges' character the dude. These aspects don't have a lot to do with the dudes personality and mannerisms but, I think we can draw influence from what the Dude wears which help portray that he is a bit of a 'deadbeat'. The clothes are drab in appearance and are always plain, dull colours.

Secondly is the scene where The Dude and Walter are scattering Donnie's ashes. The mid shot camera helps display the humour involved by showing more detail of the characters faces and focusing more on dialogue. I think we can take aspects from this and use them in our 'throwing of the ashes' scene.

Finally, this is more of a generic technique, but I liked the use of camera angles, low and high, to represent the powerplay between characters. I think we can use this technique to display both that Jason is a bit pathetic (high angle) and that he is conniving and possibly more controlling the situation (low angle).

One more shooting technique I liked and think we could use to give a nice touch to our film would be the flooding of the screen at the end of a scene with one colour (in our case Jason's dad's ashes), then cutting to the next scene which starts by the frame being flooded with the same colour (again in our case, the hairdressers apron), I'm sure there is a name for this technique but I don't know what it is!