500 days of summer

over the weekend I went to the cinema to see 500 Days of Summer, I really enjoyed it and noticed a lot of techniques that we could maybe use in our short film. I was unable to find specific clips because apparently they cant show complete films on youtube now? So i've just posted the trailor which shows some of the things i noticed. ps, thankyou theo for introducing me to tubechop.com!

The film follows two people, a male and a female, and the relationship they have over the space of 500 days. The characters have opposite beliefs, and the film documents their differences etc. Both of the characters were really believable and realistic, which links to what we want to do with our short film. The film is non linear, and all of the days are mixed up and shown at different points in the film, this was something i really enjoyed about the film, and is similar to what we hope to achieve by using flashbacks!
As a group we were talking about introducing the vagrant by showing different parts of his face and body, this technique was used in the film as you can see on the clip here... i also really liked how they have made the film footage look old and recorded on a handheld camera, if we still wanted to use flashbacks from childhood then maybe this is something we could create?


Time lapse was also used in the film to show the days progressing, which we have also researched, this is hinted here...


Something else in the film that i really liked was in one scene, the leading male character walked down a street and it slowly changed into drawings of buildings - this is also shown a bit in the clip here...


Im not sure if we would be able to do it using school computers, but there was also a scene with a split screen showing what the man hoped would happen and what actually did, i thought this also looked really good :) xxxx