Having 3 more scenes left to film I decided to do the prozac scene. After speaking to someone who had been on it for depression i learnt that suicide attempts and inertia are common when taking the drug so kept those ideas in mind when creating the set. The scene is part of the story when Sindy has tried various things to distract her endless negativity. I decided to film in black and white for a classic and sombre feel so chose the props to work accordingly.
Sindy was in a lemon, lace nightie and gown called 'Dreamy Lace 1976. To the right is a newspaper reading '...the ups and downs' from 'Shopping in the rain' 1963. To the left is a glass on it's side and some pills (sweeteners). The scene shows how Sindy is in a state of inertia and deliriousness after taking her prozac and I have tried to show how she is feeling. I lay her on a 60's style cushion with her hand to head on her side. She remains still throughout. It is the cushion that moves. I slowly turned it, first the focus on the head, then we see the glass and pills, her legs and then the paper. The scene keeps going round, it looks like a suicide, which reflects one of the biggest side-affects of the drug. I then dropped some sweeteners onto her and animated them to swirl around the pattern of the cushion for a surreal element. The glass 'hoovers' them up and stands up in the centre of the flower. The pills have become the pollen, (sindy is the flower and the prozac is her centre) metaphotically speaking. I cut in to her head, paper and glass shot.I have also animated the opening titles today. The first is 'A film by' and i used Sindy accessories such as parasols, shoes, hats, bouquets, coat hangers and many more. They will randomly appear to spell out the words. For the title, which I have decided to call 'Tormenture' inspired from the 'torment' poster I placed in Sindy's bedroom scene, is also animated, but using clothes. The title is a combination of the words torment, torture and men so it reflects perfectly how she is feeling and it fits with the themes I am using. It took ages to rummage through the endless bags of Sindy clothes I have to find the most maliable! Each letter will appear 1 by 1, first to spell torture and the 'men' will appear altogether, in red.
I tried different ways of writing my name to go after 'a film by' but animating it by hand writing was too hard for the time I have to do it. I even squirted ketchup to spell it but it looked a mess. I think I will have Sindys holding a letter each.
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