Inspiration - Married Life

When first settling on an idea for the short film, the pixar movie "UP" came straight to everyones minds. Within the film there is a sequence of the life and marriage of them main character and his wife.

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Something that stands out to me as that unlike a stereotypical pixar film, not all the moments are happy and joyous. In fact the "Married Life" montage actually hints that the wife Ellie has had a miscarriage. Not only is this aspect shocking, it helps to keep audience members gripped on the storyline being told. It also allows for the audience to become sympathetic towards the couple and therefore keep everyone engrossed in their storyline. 

Another thing that stands out is the lack of dialogue, something that I will suggest we do in our short film. I love how the audience has to purely focus on the visual aspects of the sequence and how beautifully the story is told without any words. This is done mainly through the use of colour and lighting where the colours are quite monotone and desaturated at the beginning to give a hint of the past. The colours then progressively get more vibrant as the montage progresses. 
Colour is also used to create the mood where there is a clearly darker colours and more shadows used when Ellie finds out she lost the baby and more shadows are present at Ellie's funeral as well.   

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In our short film I would like the couple to be different, to have something like a habit or a quirk that is personal to them. Up doesn't just tell a stereotypical love story, it shows the couples own personal adventures and the things that have become personal to them. These include Ellie tying his tie or cloud watching as well as the both their over all desire to go to paradise falls. This is what helps to keep the audience gripped on watching and shows how developed the couples relationship was. 

The last thing that makes this montage successful is the music. The music is what takes the audience through their journey of their highs and their lows. This montage has made it clear that we will need to have a good soundtrack in our own short film.