Quirkiness!

After much consideration, I have decided to change the "feel" of my film. I came to this conclusion whilst exploring music, and came across the track that I ended up using. I felt that its jazzy feel didn't suit my original idea of a sad story of heartbreak, but it did for a more upbeat, quirkier film. But I really liked the music! Due to this, I started to consider changing my film to a more "quirky" nature - this would resolve my issue in terms of not wanting it to end up too romantically cheesy and conventional! A quirkier feel would mean that neither characters take anything too seriously, and that the audience see the film in a more comedic light.

Through changing my idea, the shots would not need to change dramatically - I would simply need my actors to be more animated, and present light-hearted emotions (looking sad, but not depressed!). There are however two main things that I feel would need changing:

1. Nearing the end, the boy rubs out how the situation really ended, and draws how he wishes it did. Once the "wished" scene has played out, he then stares at the page, devastated that it didn't end that way. For my new idea, I would want my character to look satisfied and content when he looks back at the new drawing (thinking he really has changed it). Following this (the cut back to the blank page), he would give a big over-the-top sigh, and leave the room - this way, emotion is light-hearted.
2. I was thinking about ways to portray to the audience that the boy is struggling to tell the girl he loves her (blogged in previous post). I was hesitant about many ideas, including one about the character spelling out "I love you" in alphabet spaghetti but messing it up before he serves it to the girl, as I thought it was too quirky for my originally dramatic, romantic film - but now I have changed other factors, it's perfect! However, I will still need to think of other ways for his inability to tell the girl her loves her to get put across for the other two scenes (park and kitchen). 

I feel as through making my film quirky it will reinforce the "timeless" effect I am trying to create, as it will seem more like an old-fashioned silent movie - characters in the latter often have largely animated facial expressions in order to put across what they're trying to say, as of course, they cannot say it. This is the case for my film (there is no dialogue), and I want to make sure everything is getting across to the audience.