Friday February 6, 2026
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For this week, my class was tasked to have a group meeting with each other and discuss each of our ideas/stories regarding our film openings. Unfortunately I was unable to attend school due to a sickness and missed the meeting. So for this week I was given an alternative research assignment of my choice and I want to look farther into the shots and composition in coming-of-age films.
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I want to really highlight the main characters isolation right off the bat, by utilizing tight close ups. This expresses the feeling of being trapped and confined within ones mind, without saying that explicitly. I want to move the story though the specific shots, having the shot types aid the storytelling, as I won't be using any dialogue. Along with close ups, I want to use zoom/ pull ins to really capture the raw and unfiltered emotion that I want to portray. I would also incorporate the subject not being centered because it adds a sense of being unbalanced, but that is how the character is feeling in the present moment, unbalanced. Seemingly missing her other half.
I want to show the immense pain that she is in by having a sequence throughout of her crying, and that scene being sliced multiple times by some happy memories and some dark. I want to do this as a way of portraying her remembering these things in real time, as if to see a glimpse into her mind at that moment.
Ex. Perks of Being a Wallflower
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To express the happier scenes, there will be a great use of two shots and wide shots. Really showing how open and loving the environment is around the pair, without having them say anything. I love the idea of having the characters emotions carry the story rather than the dialogue because I feel that a film can have a greater impact if the feeling is expressed to the audience through their emotion and body language. In having the happy scenes show great forms of love through each character, it makes his death that much more impactful even if it isn't exactly shown.
With these scenes in particular, I want to try to have the two of them be in the middle of the shot, creating a sense of balanced that was once lost in the beginning of the film. In having them be balanced, it makes the "flashback" scenes feel much more intimate and warm, as apposed to the cold and isolated feeling after his death.
Ex. Sixteen Candles
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